Articles about Drip Irrigation Guide for agricultural irrigation
What’s Actually Different About Vegetables The first thing I tell anyone setting up drip irrigation for vegetables: throw out the generic spacing chart that came with your drip tape. It was written for row crops and orchards. Vegetables don’t behave…
I’ve seen it too many times. A farmer spends two weekends installing a drip irrigation system, gets the pressure dialed in, watches the first few cycles work perfectly, and then three months later half the emitters are plugged and the…
Sub-Saharan Africa holds about 9% of the world’s renewable freshwater, but barely 6% of its farmland gets irrigated. In South Asia, that number is 40%. The difference isn’t geography. It’s money, infrastructure, and decades of projects built for 100-hectare commercial…
A farmer in northern Kenya told me something last year that stuck. He’d installed drip irrigation across two hectares of tomatoes and was still running his pump 9 hours a day during the dry season. His neighbor, with the same…
I’ve lost count of how many farmers have told me the same story: they spent good money on drip tape and mainline tubing, laid everything out perfectly, turned on the water. Half their fittings popped off within the first hour.…
So You’re Thinking About a Solar Pump A farmer in northern Nigeria told me last year that his diesel pump was eating 40% of his vegetable profits. The fuel costs, the spare parts, the trips to town when the damn…
