European Irrigation Association

As fields across Europe rest during the winter months, it’s the perfect time for growers to focus on an essential task often overlooked during the busy growing season: preventative maintenance for irrigation equipment.

By Bruno Perroni, Lindsay – Artificial Intelligence (AI), precision agriculture, and smart technologies for irrigation are no longer futuristic concepts—they are rapidly becoming central pillars of modern farming. While these terms have existed in the agricultural lexicon for years, their practical adoption has accelerated, particularly in areas like irrigation, crop monitoring, and decision support.

After many years of use, the 1980s irrigation system began to show its age. Installer Arrosage Concept carried out a complete renovation of the irrigation system between October 2023 and April 2024, expanding the lake's capacity, replacing the old main pipes, and replacing the Rain Bird Nimbus II decoder system by a Rain Bird® IC System™ with CirrusPRO™ software.

Sustainability Agriculture working group, intends to pay attention to issues concerning the promotion and activation of projects that pursue the sustainable development goals, with a particular focus on …

The Urban Landscape group focusses itself on the green areas in urban developments, irrigation in those areas and making it more efficient and lowering the cost of maintenance.

The EIA encourages its members to collaborate with national organisations involved in standardisation and to the establishment of comprehensive and quality orientated international norms and standards.

Few EIA members already provide training courses which will be appropriately adapted for delivering through the EIA training scheme. Such courses must

Objectives of the group are to share technical experiences and obstacles to the development of Reuse’s projects.

The objectives of the communication workgroup are to improve the EIA communication tools such as LinkedIn and Facebook etc.

The European Irrigation Association (EIA) welcomes the European Commission’s Water Resilience Strategy (WRS) as a timely and necessary initiative. EIA supports the Strategy’s ambitions to enhance both quantity and quality of water resources, and to build a ‘Water-Smart’ economy based on the ‘Water Efficiency Principle’.

The European Irrigation Association (EIA) is deeply concerned over the economic strain caused by recent US tariffs on EU imports, as well as the potential repercussions of EU retaliatory measures targeting US exports

The EIA’s aim is not only to integrate Sustainable Irrigation within the European framework, but to also provide a univocal basis for measuring and improving the performance of the value chain and foster the sector’s sustainable transition.