Dripper Articles & Analysis
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Water-Saving Measures More than 70% of California almond orchards now irrigate efficiently with flexible tubes that stretch along the rows of trees, a system known as micro-irrigation. Small sprinklers or drippers are positioned to irrigate only the trees’ root areas, so little water is wasted, a far cry from the old practice of flood irrigation. ...
Its main disadvantage is the high sensitivity of the drippers to clog. This study focused only on the chemical precipitation mechanisms. ...
The results show that under the conditions of 6 hours of irrigation with two drippers each delivering 1.05 L hr−1 and spaced at 45 cm, the soil moisture content of the 0–30 cm layer increased rapidly and reached 0.29 cm3 cm−3, and was greater than that in the 30–60 cm layer as irrigation proceeded. ...
He uses drip irrigation with five drippers per bag, running at 1.2 to 2 litres per hour. “Most people have four drippers a bag, but we find five eliminates any potential salt problem,” he says. ...