Farm Irrigation Efficiency
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Project Drawdown's Farm Irrigation Efficiency solution promotes energy-efficient irrigation practices that enhance crop yields while reducing water use and emissions. Conventional irrigation, often inefficient, consumes significant energy, but switching to sprinkler and drip systems can reduce water usage by up to 25-40% compared to traditional methods. These methods also improve yields, lower costs, reduce soil erosion, and help manage water resources. Although infrastructure costs can be high, technologies like sensors, rainwater capture, and smart irrigation scheduling offer further efficiency gains. As climate change affects rainfall patterns, efficient irrigation is a key strategy for agricultural adaptation.
Impact:
Use of sprinkler and drip irrigation varies widely around the world. Our analysis assumes the area under improved irrigation grows from 53.8 million hectares in 2018 to 187.71-286.47 million hectares in 2050. The highest adoption increases would occur in Asia, where 62 percent of total irrigated area is located and currently only 7 percent of that land is under micro-irrigation. This growth could avoid 1.13-2.07 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions and save 37-68 billion gallons of water with a US$534.60-938.58 billion lifetime net operational savings and a first cost of US$222.87-386.92 billion.
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