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Florida Researcher Finds Way to Cut Cost, Save Water and Help the Environment by Changing One Simple Thing

Florida researcher Sanjay Shukla reduces space and reorganizes how crops are laid-out in method he calls “compact bed geometry” and grows same amount of vegetables with same amount of water, less loss of fertilizers to groundwater, less need for pesticides and need one drip lines to irrigate each row, instead of two and fewer square feet in plastic mulch covering. Read more at the University of Florida's archive website.