{"id":2186,"date":"2026-09-15T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cropx.nl\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:50:47","slug":"cropdriven-irrigation-project-slimme-irrigatie-met-gewas-en-bodemdata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/2026\/09\/15\/cropdriven-irrigation-project-slimme-irrigatie-met-gewas-en-bodemdata\/","title":{"rendered":"CropDriven Irrigation Project \u2013 Smart Irrigation Using Crop and Soil Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

CropDriven Irrigation Project Receives Funding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CropDriven Irrigation is an innovation project focused on the development and practical validation of a digital, crop-driven irrigation solution for agriculture in the Northern Netherlands. The project addresses increasing drought and uncertainty surrounding water availability as a result of climate change. At the same time, there is a growing need for more efficient water use, energy savings, and further digitalisation of agriculture.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In current practice, irrigation decisions are often based on experience, fixed schedules, or soil moisture measurements alone. As a result, it is not always clear how much water a crop actually needs. CropDriven Irrigation therefore combines real-time measurements of crop water demand (ETa) with soil moisture data. This provides a more complete picture of the water balance and allows irrigation to be more precisely tailored to the crop\u2019s actual needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is being carried out by a consortium led by CropX, in collaboration with Van den Borne Projecten as the knowledge and validation partner. Field trials are taking place at four agricultural SMEs in the Northern Netherlands: Mts. Wollerich, Mts. Sterenborg, Mts. Zijlma, and Veefokbedrijf Hoving. These farms serve as living labs, where the technology is tested over multiple growing seasons in both arable farming and grassland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim is to advance the technology from TRL 4 to TRL 7 and deliver an irrigation system that has been validated under real-world farming conditions. The system is expected to achieve water savings of 10\u201320% and energy savings of 5\u201315%, without negatively affecting yield or crop quality. For participating farmers, the technology could result in lower costs, greater yield security, and improved drought risk management. In addition, a large amount of field data will be collected to support further knowledge development and scaling to other regions and, ultimately, international agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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CropDriven Irrigation-project ontvangt een subsidie CropDriven Irrigation is een innovatieproject gericht op de ontwikkeling en praktijkvalidatie van een digitale, gewasgestuurde irrigatieoplossing voor de landbouw in Noord-Nederland. Het project speelt in op toenemende droogte en onzekerheid over de beschikbaarheid van water door klimaatverandering. Tegelijkertijd is er behoefte aan effici\u00ebnter watergebruik, energiebesparing en verdere digitalisering van de landbouw. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irrigatiemanagement","category-projecten"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-Sep-15-2026-07_27_08-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}