Smart Farming: Egyptian farmers can irrigate fields while they at home

Smart Farming: Egyptian farmers can irrigate fields while they at home

Limited resources. Farmers transplant rice seedlings in a paddy field in Qalyub in Egypt's El-Kalubia governorate - REUTERS







CAIRO – 4 December 2020: In a bid of adopting the new technology in the agriculture field in Egypt, the government started applying system of moisture sensors to regulates the irrigation and improve the crop productivity.

 

“Within six months, the Egyptian farmer can irrigate his land while he is staying at home via using his mobile phone,” said Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Atti during his inspection tour of the city of Al-Fayyoum on Thursday.

 

The new digitized system includes using moisture sensors that would be planted in the soil to measure the percentage of moisture of the soil, then the data would be transmitted to the farmer's mobile application via satellite signals, head of Planning Sector at Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Eman Sayed told Youm7