Promoting Drip Irrigation To Enhance Food Security
Drip irrigation technology can help farms adapt to climate change by ensuring effective water use. By supplying the appropriate water resources directly to the plant as needed, drip irrigation lowers the demand for water during seasonal droughts and reduces water evaporation losses. Due to the rising population, unpredictable rainfall brought on by recurring droughts, and a lack of proper technologies to address the issue, Kenya’s land and water resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and the amount of arable land has drastically dropped.
Drip irrigation is a modern way of irrigating farms. Due to the impacts of climate change, the rain-fed irrigation system is becoming unsustainable, and farmers can longer rely on the rains for irrigation. Therefore, drip irrigation comes in handy as it is a micro irrigation system that drips water to the plants and uses minimum water and gravity, making it a clean technology that is very efficient in saving energy and water.
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