New Economical Technology Leverages Excess Pressure on Power Grid to Produce Energy
Written by AZoCleantechApr 7 2021
In recent years, pressure-based irrigation techniques have substituted conventional ones, thereby enhancing water efficiency but increasing the dependence on energy. This has led to advances and innovations in technology that have facilitated agricultural activity.
Researchers from the Agronomy Department at the University of Cordoba. Image Credit: University of Cordoba.
This, in turn, increases the energy costs associated with the agriculture sector, some of the highest ones in the European Union.
Juan Antonio Rodríguez Díaz and Jorge García Morillo, scientists from the Hydraulics and Irrigation Group of the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, at the Department of Agronomy of the University of Cordoba (DAUCO), aimed to increase the energy efficiency of irrigation.
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Controlled deficit irrigation in the postharvest of cherry trees improves production
Elena Nieto Serrano s doctoral thesis, Response of two cherry varieties to different irrigation strategies in the Jerte Valley, proposes irrigation strategies in the pre-harvest and post-harvest periods for different cherry varieties that would allow farmers to have a quality and profitable production while making efficient use of water. Nieto Serrano is a researcher at the Extremadura Scientific and Technological Research Center (Cicytex) that studied the water needs of cherry crops in the mountain conditions of the north of Caceres for her doctoral thesis.
The research lasted three years and focused on two varieties commonly used in the Valle del Jerte s production: the Burlat, an early variety with a short ripening cycle, and the Lapins, a later variety with a medium cycle. Four irrigation treatments were evaluated. An irrigation treatment with 100% of the water needs of the crop; controlled d