According to Xinhua News, March 22 is World Water Day. The United Nations has set the theme of World Water Day 2022 as "Cherish groundwater and treasure hidden resources". In Israel, a country in the Middle East where water resources are scarce, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, "water-saving wisdom" at the fingertips is being widely applied in the farms.
According to data from the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Israel spends 17% of its agricultural budget on supporting scientific and technological research and development. Michael Levy, Senior Deputy Director-General of Agricultural Innovation of the Ministry, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency recently that the government has invested about 5 million US dollars in agricultural digitization academic research in 2021 and about 35 million US dollars in agricultural science and technology. Practical transformation to drive adoption of digital farming. Among them, the water-saving-oriented precision irrigation system occupies a large proportion. Relying on the developed Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence technologies, the digital water saving revolution is quietly taking place in the fields of Israel.
"There are currently more than 100 Israeli companies producing tools to measure, analyze, and monitor automated processes to ensure accurate water requirements for crops and soil, minimize water waste, and put every drop of water to good use," Levy said. .
To achieve "the best use of water", farmers only need to download the mobile phone application. Taking CropX, AgrIOT, Saturas and other irrigation software systems as examples, farmers can monitor the precise water demand of a small plot of land in a certain period of time in a mobile phone application, so as to intelligently control irrigation and achieve at least 20% water saving. In addition, the nutrient absorption of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium by crops is also clear at a glance, which can provide a basis for accurately judging whether the intake of specific elements is sufficient.
"All data will be synchronized to the cloud for algorithm analysis, and farmers will automatically obtain conclusions and find the most optimized and accurate solutions." said Naheem Moshlin, a professor at the School of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Hebrew University.
The vigorous development of digital precision irrigation relies on Israel's relatively mature drip irrigation technology. The Israelis invented this technology in the 1960s. According to statistics, about 75% of the land in Israel currently uses drip irrigation technology. Taking rice cultivation, which requires a lot of water, as an example, the head of a company specializing in drip irrigation technology said: "The output of rice grown by drip irrigation not only exceeds the traditional method, but also reduces the water consumption by 70%."
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