All entries for Thursday 20 July 2006
July 20, 2006
Responding to Water Scarcity
Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/audio/?podcastItem=fertigation.mp3
Growers in the UK are having to get used to managing with less water. Changing climate patterns mean that techniques long established in Southern Europe are now being adapted for use further north.
Dr Jim Monaghan (Harper Adams University College) is leading research at Warwick HRI on Dynamic Fertigation, an irrigation system that not only saves water and fertilizer but also automatically respond to five day weather forecasts.