A Greener Future: How French Growers are Harnessing Precision Irrigation to Combat Drought – and Increase Productivity

Precision Irrigation

Météo-France confirm that 2022 was the hottest year since records began, with negative impacts on yields of up to 22%. Now even before we truly enter summer in 2023, serious concerns are being raised. French TV reported in early June that half of the north of France was already in a clear state of drought. “It’s a dramatic situation, and one that’s being repeated more and more,” declares prominent reporter Laurent Romejko.

With record-breaking temperatures, dwindling aquifers and diminishing snowpacks, is there anything the country’s growers can do to mitigate against a damaging summer in 2023?

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A Greener Future: How French Growers are Harnessing Precision Irrigation to Combat Drought – and Increase Productivity

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