New Irrigation System Developed in Iran to Save Water Up to 80%
“This project was implemented by using discarded soda bottles which are often thrown away with the garbage,” Bohloul Khalili, the managing director of ‘Farazandishan Faraz Gouni’ company, told ANA.
“The subsurface pressurized irrigation project was implemented for the first time in East Azerbaijan province (Northwestern Iran), and interestingly, it was implemented by using soda plastic bottles,” he added.
“This system saves 80% of water consumption and reduces consumption of agricultural pesticides by 90%,” Khalili said.
“The subsurface pressurized irrigation system does not depend on pools and it can be implemented in deep wells, rivers, water streams and even by tankers,” he added.
In a relevant development in September, Iranian researchers had also designed a system which helps smart agriculture by omitting the need for round-the-clock monitoring of manpower and controlling the environmental conditions and irrigation equipment.
“We have succeeded in finding a comprehensive solution for making agriculture smarter which can be used in the field of smart city and smart home; the initial steps have been taken in a specialized way in agriculture and we intend to develop it further,” Behzad Khanjarian, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“In this system, a set of hardware and software is provided to the customer which is always managed by the service provider. In other words, to control greenhouses, we install a number of sensors in that place which transmits information to the server with specific measurements; then the information is sent back to the greenhouse hardware devices and the controller controls the environmental conditions and irrigation automatically,” he added.
Noting that the customer has no involvement in the service, Khanjarian said, “The smart agriculture system of our company is wireless, and we use artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic (one of the advanced digital control methods) to manage the software of the farm which are the distinguishing features of this product.”
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