Drip irrigation systems and techniques
The Groundwater Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About India uses more groundwater than any country on earth. About 250 cubic kilometers a year, roughly a quarter of global groundwater extraction. Most of it goes to agriculture. And the water table…
You set up your drip irrigation system in April. Everything ran fine through May. Then July hits, the temperature climbs past 35°C, and suddenly half your tomato rows look stressed while the other half are sitting in puddles. You walk…
Why Fruit Trees Don’t Follow the Vegetable Playbook If you’ve set up drip irrigation for tomatoes or peppers, you might think moving that same approach to an orchard is straightforward. It’s not. Fruit trees have root systems that spread 2…
I’ve spent years talking to farmers across Latin America about water. Not the operations with 200 hectares and a fleet of tractors. The guy with two hectares of coffee on a Colombian hillside. The family growing tomatoes outside Oaxaca. The…
