Spain finally shakes off its Moorish chains
"We're jumping from the 13th century to the 21st century," said Juan Valero, Fenacore's secretary general.
While computer-assisted irrigation is not new, Fenacore believes no other country is organizing it at a national level. So far 200,000 farmers have signed up for the project, Valero said.
"The only way to manage water is to measure how much enters each channel, and computer technology is the best way to do this," he said.
Farmers are being encouraged to move away from outdated, wasteful Moorish-style flood irrigation systems toward drip and dispersion irrigation. They are also asked to lay highly efficient telecommunications cables alongside main water conduits so that the irrigation grid can be monitored from a national computer center.
I'm sure there will be much rejoicing in the nutosphere: a VICTORY FOR THE WEST!
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