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Moving inside


By Steve Brown 24 Irrigation TODAY | Spring 2021


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With microirrigation, indoor production allows growers to avoid environmental challenges and produce more.


ver the last few years, technological advances have helped field growers gain better control over many of their production


parameters; however, rainfall and seasonal conditions remain uncontrolled. By moving part or all of the production indoors or into a greenhouse, growers can gain control over the changing environmental conditions of temperature, humidity and water application that are affecting the yield and health of the crops.


It has been stated that by 2050, agriculture will have to produce two times the current


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