Agriculture depends upon water.
For thousands of years, irrigation has primarily focused on supplying additional water to crops whenever natural rainfall becomes insufficient.
While irrigation technologies have evolved considerably, the underlying philosophy has remained remarkably consistent: if plants require more water, additional water must be supplied.
This approach has produced important advances in agricultural productivity.
However, it also assumes that increasing irrigation is the primary solution to water stress.
Radixora challenges this assumption.
Rather than asking how additional water can be delivered, the project asks how existing irrigation can be used far more efficiently.
In many environments, only part of the supplied water ultimately becomes available to plant roots.
A significant percentage is lost before it can contribute to plant growth.
Understanding and reducing these losses represents the central engineering challenge addressed by Radixora.