Executive V.P. Jeff Tuel and Pres. Aric Olson, Jain Irrigation
“The New Product Contest award is a great validation by the Irrigation Association and the members of our industry of the importance JAIN Water Management Consulting Services is having,” said Aric Olson, President of Jain Irrigation
FRESNO, Calif. (PRWEB)
December 16, 2021
Jain Irrigation, Inc., the world leader in irrigation technology, today announced that its Water Management Services, where JAIN consultants deliver weekly irrigation schedules to growers based on satellite imagery, hyperlocal weather, and machine learning analysis of soil moisture content and water infiltration properties, has won the Irrigation Association 2021 New Product Contest Award in the Specialty Agriculture Irrigation category. This year’s contest was a hybrid event combining virtual and live elements. Products were evaluated based on innovation, design quality, increased water/resource-use efficiency, ease of use, and product life expectancy. Contest judges are experienced professionals with technical knowledge and industry expertise. Official judging was conducted via Zoom Nov. 17-18, with winners announced live on the Irrigation Show floor on December 9.
Winning in the Specialty Agriculture Irrigation category, JAIN Water Management Services was honored for its highly integrated offering of agtech software, hardware, and consulting services that generate intelligent irrigation schedules; featuring the first-of-its-kind utilization of high-resolution satellite imaging for ETc (crop water consumption), real-time local weather and soil moisture sensing in the field, bundled together with Machine Learning toward providing unprecedented precision in management of when and how long each crop irrigation event needs to last.
Accepting the award, Jeff Tuel, Executive Vice President of Jain Irrigation and head of Water Management Services, said, “Growers today are facing environmental challenges the likes we’ve never seen before, in addition to incredible labor shortages. We developed JAIN Water Management Services to remove the hesitancy in deploying new technologies that can meet these problems head-on. While the tools may be complex, the process is quite simple and relies on tried-and-true soil, plant, and water relationships. The growers get this, and it’s remarkable to see how quickly over the course of the program they’re able to pick up the technology and start producing their own irrigation schedules.”
“The New Product Contest award is a great validation by the Irrigation Association and the members of our industry of the importance JAIN Water Management Services is having,” said Aric Olson, President of Jain Irrigation, “Modern technology makes it easier to manage water than any time before in history, but agtech companies need to meet an even higher bar before farmers are willing to change how they operate and we have to be able to adapt along with them, too. Our ability to train and support customers to become power users of JAIN Logic software, to understand their problems, provides a low cost, low-risk trial of the leading technology available today.”
A short video with stories from three California Central Valley Growers talking about their participation in the inaugural launch of JAIN Water Management Services and how working directly with a JAIN water management consultant helped them successfully adopt and use agtech within a single growing season is now available on the Jain Irrigation YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/fg5C8EJGoY0.
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ABOUT JAIN IRRIGATION
JAIN is a fully integrated global food/plant production company recognized by Harvard Business as one of five global sustainability champions and the G-20 to lift people out of poverty. Our irrigation manufacturing capabilities include everything from behind the pump to the flush valve at the end of the lateral and everything in between, including drip irrigation. We lead the industry in manufacturing technology, owning both our extrusion and mold manufacturing equipment providers. Jain leads plant science research globally across various food crops and is staffed with some of the world’s leading research scientists. With the Gandhi Library, Jain now houses the prominent collection of the world’s best plant science knowledge in a single facility. Our agronomic knowledge is integrated from our world-class tissue culture operations through our food processing businesses. We research, educate, advance, manufacture, finance, propagate plants, and purchase produce for processing, all to fulfill the Jain mission, “leave this world better than you found it.”
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