Sixty percent of the water normally used in irrigation has been saved in computer-aided field studies now being conducted in northern Sinai by a team of Israeli soil and irrigation experts. Prof. Achi Brandt, head of the Weizmann Institute’s Pure Mathematics Department, who has been making use of sophisticated computer techniques, said information obtained from the field experiments is translated into data which is fed into the Institute’s Golem computer. “The fact that we are able to get information quickly,” Prof. Brandt said, “enables us to come closer to our goal of optimum irrigation procedures.” This, for example, involves proper intervals between irrigation periods, and rates of water discharge which takes into account parameters such as weather, type of soil and type of plants.
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