Helping Farmers Use Water Better
Satellite Readings Offer New Ways to Identify the Best Irrigation Practices
BY KATE ROSS, The International Herald Tribune, November 29, 2010
A new technology, using sensors on satellites, could help to establish standards for the amount of water that farmers need to irrigate their crops, and help to optimize the use of that water, an increasingly scarce resource.
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