JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a ...

Netafim is one of Israel’s best-known success stories. The company was started in 1965 and became the world leader in drip irrigation systems, especially for arid farmlands. Now Netafim is now ...

PHOENIX — Ronald Rayner has been fascinated with water since he was a boy on his father’s farm in Goodyear. Now a partner on the family farm, A Tumbling-T Ranches, he has found a way to conserve water ...

ST. MATTHEWS – Assurances from officials that the wastewater treatment drip irrigation field proposed by the Town of St. Matthews won’t contaminate the surrounding area and won’t generate an odor didn ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2016 -- The first sustainable farming initiative leveraging Israel's unparalleled research and innovation in water technology to reduce rice-crop water use will begin this ...

The subsurface drip irrigation systems that have enhanced water use efficiency and increased yields in processing tomatoes may also have long-term effects on soil life that are worth monitoring.

STUTTGART – Weed management, furrow irrigation and drone use in agriculture are all on the agenda Friday, Aug. 2, for the annual Rice Field Day at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROEI YONAI, NETAFIM HEAD OF STRATEGIC CROPS:"Producing one kilo of rice need 5,000 litters of water. By using drip irrigation to grow rice, you can save 70 percent of the water, ...

People play in the mud as they plant rice saplings during National Paddy Day also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in ...