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PETER MASON
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Aqueel...in water management
Aqueel will play a major part in retaining one of the most valuable commodities on farm and that is water.
Water as rain or irrigation, falls on the surface of the soil, percolates through the soil layers and is utilised by the crop being grown. Modern cultivation practices and machinery sizes still contribute to significant areas of run-off and loss of this valuable commodity.
Aqueel the crops solution
Aqueel retains water within the cropping area with its clever indentations of approximately
1 litre which is approximately 175,000 litres per hectare.
- As water is a carrier of crop nutrients, this is retained.
- Whilst the nutrients are retained they are beneficial and not converted into pollutants if washed off the field.
- Water running off the field carries significant valuable top soils with it and can lead to soil structure and erosion problems.
Irrigation
The Aqueel's ability to create small indentations over the soil surface can result in as many as 192,500 indentations per hectare, each with a water capacity of up to 1 litre.
It goes without saying that at the most vital time of year for many crops, water is at its lowest levels. The design of the Aqueel reservoirs ensures that far more of the water that lands on the field, rainfall or irrigation is retained for the benefit of the crop.
Water Management & Erosion Protection
When used with a range of cultivators, sub-soilers and vegetable bed-formers and planters, the Aqueel presses a lattice of divots into cultivated soil.
These do two things:
- they hold rain/irrigation water where it falls, giving it time to percolate into the soil and feed the crop, so improving water use efficiency, while preventing run-off and removal of soil, enabling users to meet another of the Cross Compliance conditions.
- when the wind blows the divots cause eddying just above the surface which slows surface windspeeds and reduces the wind's ability to pick up and transport soil particles. As well as protecting the soil, it also protects young plants, which can be de-waxed or have leaves stripped off by these particles.
