WATER AS GOLD OBJECTIVE DO NOT WASTE IT VENETO AGRICULTURE AND PRECISION WATERING SYSTEMS
WATER AS GOLD OBJECTIVE DO NOT WASTE IT VENETO AGRICULTURE AND PRECISION WATERING SYSTEMS

WATER AS GOLD OBJECTIVE DO NOT WASTE IT VENETO AGRICULTURE AND PRECISION WATERING SYSTEMS

Geoelectric sensors, zoning, sub-irrigation… The regional agency is experimenting with innovative methods to optimize water consumption, a commodity too precious to be wasted.

Water is not an inexhaustible resource and therefore should not be wasted. Indeed, it appears increasingly important to develop innovative systems capable of optimizing its consumption in all production sectors, including agriculture. Veneto Agriculture has been involved in this “front” for several years, in particular thanks to the “WSTORE2” project, implemented as part of the LIFE European environmental program.

The project developed by the regional agency in its pilot and demonstration company in ValleVecchia di Caorle (Ve) has identified an innovative system (the first in the world) for the management of rainwater that is completely automated capable of accumulating and subsequently releasing water of discrete quality (low salinity; we remember that ValleVecchia is located a stone's throw from the sea, thus affected by the so-called rising of the saline wedge).

In the wake of this important result, the regional agency is now concentrating on a series of other tests that aim to identify precision irrigation systems capable of increasingly rationalizing water consumption. For this purpose, other experimental farms of Veneto Agriculture were also involved, not only ValleVecchia, where precision micro-irrigation systems, as mentioned, are now a custom. In the pilot and demonstration company Sasse Rami in Ceregnano (Ro), for example, a self - propelled mobile sprinkler is in operation, one of the few in Italy, capable of automatically modifying irrigation volumes area by area within the cultivated field; an experimental sub-irrigation system is in operation at the Diana pilot and demonstration company in Mogliano Veneto (Treviso). Furthermore, innovative technologies and materials are being tested for the progressive improvement of the efficiency of irrigation water use (automatic and flexible systems to avoid waste), zoning in homogeneous areas of the cultivated surface with precision techniques (sensors geoelectric) in which to insert probes capable of indicating the moments of actual water need and when it is instead necessary to interrupt the flow without wasting this precious asset.

To find out more about the "WSTORE2" project, the "father" of all the experiments that Veneto Agricoltura is carrying out, see: http://www.wstore2.eu/

 

03/09/2020
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