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A Tiny Piece of Plastic Is Helping Farmers Use Far Less Water
An Israeli firm’s modest innovation in drip irrigation could forever change agriculture, especially in resource-starved regions.
25 Sep 2021, 05:25 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On the bone-dry western flank of Arizona, where the Colorado River Basin meets the Mojave Desert, sit 11,000 acres of alfalfa, sorghum, wheat, and Sudan grass belonging to the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), all destined to be harvested and sold for animal feed. For anything to grow here, irrigation is a must. Less than a quarter inch of rain has fallen so far this year, according to Josh Moore, who m...
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