A Tiny Piece of Plastic Is Helping Farmers Use Far Less Water.

N-Drip is the brainchild of Uri Shani, a professor of soil physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former chairman of Israel's water authority. He met Shani at N-Drip's headquarters, which at the time was a small office in a strip mall in a Tel Aviv suburb. But Shani has a long way to go if he intends to convert the Earth's 600 million flood-irrigated acres, and the road from garden shed to global irrigation solution will have plenty of obstacles. Keywords: PEP; AFRICA; AGR; ALLTOP; BASIC; BIZWEEK; BUSINESS; CHM; CLIMATE; CMD; CMDTOP; CONS; CONSS; COS; ENVSVC; GEN; GENTOP; INDUSTRIAL; INDUSTRIES; ISRAEL; MAC; MANU; MARKETS; MIDEAST; NORTHAM; NRG; TEC; TMT; TOP; US; UTI; WAT; WORLD; WWTOP; WWTOPAM; WWTOPEU EN PEP AFRICA AGR ALLTOP BASIC BIZWEEK BUSINESS CHM CLIMATE CMD CMDTOP CONS CONSS COS ENVSVC GEN GENTOP INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIES ISRAEL MAC MANU MARKETS MIDEAST NORTHAM NRG TEC TMT TOP US UTI WAT WORLD WWTOP WWTOPAM WWTOPEU An Israeli company's modest innovation in drip irrigation could forever change agriculture, especially in resource-starved environments. [Extracted from the article]