Spanish irrigators leap from medieval times to digital age
Tagged: SpainPosted on: August 21st, 2007“For decades, Alberto Martorell has been irrigating his orange and persimmon groves in this sweltering corner of eastern Spain by a method unchanged since the age of the Moorish invaders ”” swamping them under a flood of water from the local canal.
But those days may be coming to an end. Martorell is one of a growing number of Spanish farmers who have signed up to go digital ”” agreeing to switch to drip irrigation and connect their fields to a national grid monitored from Madrid.”
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Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, International
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