Monday, February 14, 2011

Green: Bare-Bones Irrigation in India

Driptech Farmers deploying the Driptech irrigation system in southern India.

During a recent trip to a rural part of western India to report on rising food prices, I met two kinds of farmers — those with access to irrigation and those without. The differences between the two were stark.
Those with drip irrigation or sprinklers invariably were reaping rich harvests and profits. But the vast majority of India’s farmers fall in the second camp: they water their crops by flooding their fields

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