Keywords: Water management and Productivity, Yield Productivity, Mobile for agricultural data collection, LLL and boosting food security. Living in rural of Afghanistan Life in rural Afghanistan evokes an image of a farmer levelling the land with an ox-drawn one of the most basic preparations before sowing, as uneven land does not bode well scraper. It’s for water absorption and farm productivity. But for many farmers, animal power is being replaced by machines. A laser land leveler - a machine equipped with a laser-operated drag bucket - is much more effective and quicker at ensuring a flat, even surface. A flat surface means irrigation water reaches every part of the field with minimal waste from run-off or water-logging. Mechanization is good news for farmers in Afghanistan, as climate change and variability pose unprecedented challenges to agriculture. The need of the hour is climate-smart agriculture practices and technologies that save on scarce resources like water and energy but increase yields and incomes. A portfolio of climate-smart practices can equip farmers to adapt to changing weather patterns amid depleting natural resources. For instance, in rural Afghanistan farmers have access to LLL machines to laser their lands don’t and the water which they have in the canals is not enough for their land they installed electric pumps and solar pumps for groundwater which Causing early dryness Recent studies predict that demand for irrigation water will increase at least 10 percent with a 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature in and semi-arid regions. Asia’s arid Irrigation is the biggest user of groundwater in rural Afghanistan, and unless steps are taken to reverse this trend, farmers face a water-scarce future. With Most Respect, Hamayoon Amini Kabul, Afghanistan
Keywords: Water management and Productivity, Yield Productivity, Mobile for agricultural data collection, LLL and boosting food security. Living in rural of Afghanistan Life in rural Afghanistan evokes an image of a farmer levelling the land with an ox-drawn scraper. It’s one of the most basic preparations before sowing, as uneven land does not bode well for water absorption and farm productivity. But for many farmers, animal power is being replaced by machines. A laser land leveler - a machine equipped with a laser-operated drag bucket - is much more effective and quicker at ensuring a flat, even surface. A flat surface means irrigation water reaches every part of the field with minimal waste from run-off or water-logging. Mechanization is good news for farmers in Afghanistan, as climate change and variability pose unprecedented challenges to agriculture. The need of the hour is climate-smart agriculture practices and technologies that save on scarce resources like water and energy but increase yields and incomes. A portfolio of climate-smart practices can equip farmers to adapt to changing weather patterns amid depleting natural resources. For instance, in rural Afghanistan farmers don’t have access to LLL machines to laser their lands and the water which they have in the canals is not enough for their land they installed electric pumps and solar pumps for groundwater which Causing early dryness Recent studies predict that demand for irrigation water will increase at least 10 percent with a 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature in Asia’s arid and semi-arid regions. Irrigation is the biggest user of groundwater in rural Afghanistan, and unless steps are taken to reverse this trend, farmers face a water-scarce future. With Most Respect, Hamayoon Amini Kabul, Afghanistan
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