On April 6th, Agricultural Machinery Science and Technology Award ceremony (2020) was held successfully in Zhumadian, Henan province, China. The research achievements titled ‘Research and Application on the Key Technology of Multi Working Condition Sprinkler Irrigation Equipment with High Efficiency’ by Prof. Shouqi Yuan team won the first prize of 2020 Agricultural Machinery Science and Technology Award.
Our water-saving irrigation research team has been committed to the innovation and enhancement of agricultural water-saving irrigation equipment in China, making significant contributions to the effective and efficient utilization of water resources, drought resistance, disaster reduction and promoting national food security in China. Relying on China’s ‘National Research Center of Pumps’ (NRCP) and supported by the national ‘863’ program and other projects, the award-winning achievements seek to provide solutions to the pressing and urgent industrial problems of current irrigation equipment in China such as low applicability, poor matching capability and low irrigation efficiency. After a decade of systematic and comprehensive research, our research team has invented the following: three kinds of high-efficiency multi working condition sprinkler irrigation units, three kinds of low-pressure uniform sprinkler heads and a set of high-efficiency solar energy irrigation system which form the design system of sprinkler irrigation equipment with high efficiency and multi working conditions.
Besides the afore mentioned, the research team has attained a number of technologies leading to international status and 36 invention patents have been authorized including 4 US patents. These research achievements have been widely utilized in water-saving irrigation industry, playing a substantial role in green agriculture, energy conservation & emission reduction and precision irrigation. The total demonstration area is up to more than 900 thousand mu (1 mu equals to 0.0667 hectares) and it has realized the renewal of irrigation equipment in China.
