“We believe this initiative represents the first use of drip irrigation in the U. for a rice crop,” explains Kyriakos Tsakopoulos, president, principal and chief executive officer of Conaway Preservation Group, which owns the 17,000-acre Conaway Ranch. This effort could serve as a model for other farms and potentially save hundreds of thousands of acre feet of water in California if widely adopted.”
First US rice drip irrigation research project in CA leverages Israeli R&D
