A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...

They also used another NSF NCAR–based computer model, known as Noah-MP, which allows specific analysis of the interactive system of groundwater, crop growth, and irrigation. They applied a ...

More efficient irrigation practices, such as drip and micro-sprinklers, can reduce the volume of water applied to agricultural fields by 30-70 percent and can increase crop yields by 20-90 percent.