Aswan faculty of agriculture in cooperation with West China Company for electronic businesses have launched a project to control irrigation electronically via internet according to the planets needs for irrigation. That was at the university’s headquarters at Sahary.
Prof:Ahmed Ghalab ,the university’s president has witnessed the inauguration in the presence of prof:Yasser Abdelhameed Diab,faculty of agriculture’s dean ,the faculty’s vice dean for community service and environment improving ,postgraduate studies and researches ,and education and students affairs,and Dr:Nashwa Albendary ,head of the Arabic Chinese center for technology transfer.
The dean of the faculty has stated that the project aims to water-saving and organizes irrigation management in an open field. The project is supervised by each of: Aswan faculty of agriculture and natural resources, ministry of sciences and technology at China, technology transfer between China and the Arab states center at the Arab academy for sciences, technology, and maritime transport according to the needs of Egyptian agriculture improvement. He declared that the Chinese delegation has signed a cooperation protocol with Aswan university to start of executing the project in the presence of the university’s president and prof:Ayman Osman, university’s vice president for postgraduate studies and researches. The executing and testing the project took three days in a row.
Dr:Mohamed Abuelail,the faculty’s vice dean for community service and environment improving added:this project applies an advanced technology for water-saving in the irrigation field at Aswan university ,also it has been applied in the mango field at the university’s headquarters at Sahary which is designed on the Egyptian-style. This project will contribute in conducting different scientific researches and revealing the smart irrigation water-saving system. Explaining that the concept of the project based on electronic sensors measure the degree of soil humidity and how much the plant needs water, these sensors are connected to modern devices switching on and off the water electronically.