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very interesting article,
I live in Spain, where industrial agriculture is still very important; in most of the country we have a very arid climate, and water resources are scarce, specially in summer, when the crops need more water; the solution proposed by Andrew Vermouth could be intersting for small farmers;
in Spain, the focus have been different; since the decade 1950´s, to improve the efficient use of water ( and for better selling agricultural products) a cooperative systems was created; it has been necesary to create the legal figure of “Sociedad Cooperativa”, very diferent of a company, because the owners of the “cooperative” are the farmers; it allows to join forces, to buy imputs ( fertilizers, oil, seeds…) in big amounts and better conditions, and to aford more sophisticated irrigation systems with filters, high pressure… and to shell the products to the distributors, supermarkets in better conditions.
The system have been exported, as far as I know, to Kenia and Tanzania for olive trees crops