VegetablesDave and Carol Stelts won the Ohio Valley weigh-off with a 2,565.5-pound pumpkin, grown on a crowned, drip-irrigated field with heated soil, staked leaves and four years of soil preparation.
AgrotechDeerpoint Group agronomist Chris Malek argues that split nitrogen feeding works best as a continuously managed process, and that automated fertigation using crop-stage data can keep nutrition on course without more daily work for the crew.
FruitsNihal Singh, a former State Bank of India chief manager, grows about 5,000 pomegranate plants in Jalore and says moving step by step from chemical to biological inputs, with drip irrigation, cut his orchard costs from about Rs 20 lakh to Rs 8-9 lakh this year.
At Mokamtala in Bogura's Shibganj, young agriculture graduates raise disease-free seedlings in soilless cocopeat trays and grow chemical-free vegetables under polyshade with mulch film, fogging and drip irrigation, and offer hydroponics services.
AgrotechTractors, combine harvesters, rice transplanters, drip lines and drones are raising yields and cutting costs on Bangladesh's farms, from land preparation to harvest. What is in use, where the country stands, and what still holds it back.
Ray and Ryan Flickner's 1,000-acre Moundridge farm pairs subsurface drip irrigation laid in 2001 with strip-till, no-till, cover crops, drip lines retrofitted to pivots, an autonomous irrigator and plant sensors, and produced about 26 bushels per inch of water in the dry 2024 season, ten more than
In Tulyachapada, Palghar, water from the nearby Morchondi dam was close but unreachable until solar drip irrigation arrived in 2019; groundnut, vegetables and fruit trees have followed paddy and millet, farm income rose from ₹18.3 lakh in 2021 to ₹31.1 lakh in 2024, and the post-monsoon migration to
