John Deere bets on innovative irrigation solutions against drought with Spherag technology
The economic newspaper Expansión dedicates an article in its Digital Economy section—titled “John Deere tests solutions in a Parla industrial park to save farmland from drought”—to the agricultural irrigation optimization project promoted by John Deere from its innovation center located in Parla.
IoT technology to optimize water use in almond, olive, and vineyard crops
This center has facilities of 3,500 square meters and more than 4 hectares of arable land. Agrotechnological companies and educational centers collaborate in a joint project aimed at obtaining significant water savings in high-value crops such as almonds, olives, vines and pistachios.
SPHERAG, together with Azud and Metos Iberia, is one of the companies involved in the project, for which it provides the technology to monitor the state of the crops and act on irrigation remotely.
This project is framed in a context of severe drought, by which the Spanish countryside is very affected and requires efficient water management.
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