Agricultural soil science

Five of 21 planned irrigation projects, with an estimated budget of €800 million, are ready to proceed with the call for binding bids.

The largest project, worth €210million, is the irrigation of the Xanthi plain, in northeastern Greece, from the Nestos River.

The EU's Recovery Fund will contribute 30% of the cost.

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry is planning to use a new "sponge city" concept that absorbs rain waters within the scope of water efficiency measures on a national scale.

Within this scope, ecological infrastructure and drainage systems will be created in cities, and roadsides or sidewalks will be covered with surface coatings that allow water to pass through.

Faced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it spends its water resources, which are used mainly to irrigate crops.

The National Assembly will have a new and more modern website. The public contract for its construction has already been announced. Parliament has budgeted over BGN 100,000 in the summer months, bTV reported.

During a scandal involving leaked personal data from the NRA, prosecutors announced that parliament was also targeted by hackers. Or rather, its sprinklers.

Greece is taking a lead in developing a circular economy through the European Union-funded Hydrousa project, a scientific program aimed at the extraction of water from unconventional sources to be used for irrigation and even for human consumption on the country's islands. It is now moving on from the designing stage to licensing.

A project to modernize irrigation in Turkey will be implemented with $254 million in financing from the World Bank.

Spain’s agricultural ministry has this month launched, for the second consecutive year, a pilot experiment using artificial intelligence techniques (AI) to anticipate the evolution of the olive fly pest.

Romania is to invest 550 million euro in rehabilitating its largely disused irrigation network, covering 750,00 hectares by 2020, with most of the money coming from the European Union.

The increase of the productivity in agriculture and the processing of the domestic production are two major goals upon which we base our Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the coming years, Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin declared on Wednesday at a conference for launching the first measures of the new National Programme for Rural Development (PNDR).

Romania will advocate before the European Commission 1-billion-euro funds for its main irrigation infrastructure under the Juncker programme, given that under its National Rural Development Programme 370 million euros were approved for the rehabilitation of the secondary irrigation infrastructure, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin said Friday.