Israel's drip irrigation pioneers aim to do away with flooded rice fields
Netafim, which pioneered modern drip irrigation after joining forces with Polish-Israeli inventor Simcha Blass, says that cultivating rice by drip reduces heavy metal absorption and methane emissions to almost zero, cuts down on manual labor, and offers farmers 150% more yield. This is because while flooding is usually carried out to produce one annual cycle of rice, drip irrigation means that the same land can be used again, either for a second round of rice or for a different crop with a bigger financial return, such as onions or beans. For thousands of years, mainly in a bid to kill weeds,...
Source: timesofisrael.com