1. RDTT BAIF GRISERV agricultural research institute plants a date palm trial near Ahmenabad India

2. The date palms are transplants from tissue culture and planted on 13 September 2011

3. Date palms receive normally 10,000 liters water in the first year via the traditional flooding way

4. The Groasis Waterboxx® is assembled by the team of researchers

5. The team pays extra attention to the closure of the cover

6. The siphons that help preventing the water from evaporating are put

7. The Groasis Waterboxx® is put over the date palm sapling

8. The researchers give water to the plant with the Groasis Technology in one year 50 liters only

9. The BAIF research team is curious for the result

10. Survey of two methods the flooding system 10,000 ltrs per tree and the Groasis Technology 50 ltrs per tree

11. On our way to check the date palm plantation near Ahmedabad, India

12. Mitul Shah from Neel Agro Groasis distributor India and Pieter Hoff at the BAIF Agricultural Research Institute near Ahmedabad

13. We check the growth of the plants they are all alive and well in middle Mr. Kulkarni from BAIF

14. There has been no rain since planting September 2011

15. Pieter Hoff making photos of the two planting systems flooding technology and Groasis Technology

16. No difference in growth speed although the flooding technology requires 200 liter per week per plant and the Groasis technology 1 liter

17. Good growth of date palm in Groasis Waterboxx®

18. All date palms are healthy

19. Detail of date palm in Groasis Waterboxx®

20. When the plants grow bigger they are protected against too much sun

21. BAIF found a way to keep wild boars out of their plantation

22. A hanging lamp that is going up and down and turning around by the wind chases wild boars away at night

23. Detail of anti wild boar lamp

24. The BAIF research team together with Mr. Mitul Shah and Mr. Jan Lindeman from Indo Dutch Consultancy