A micro-irrigation system that delivers water slowly, directly to plant roots, through a network of valves, pipes, tubing and emitters. By placing water precisely at the root zone rather than across the whole field surface, it minimises evaporation and run-off, making it markedly more water-efficient than surface flooding or overhead sprinkler irrigation, and it also improves the efficiency of fertilizer applied through the same lines. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced Year1964 is the Netafim partnership that commercialised the modern plastic-emitter system; the underlying invention and first experimental system date to circa 1959. OriginModern drip irrigation was developed in Israel in the 1960s by the engineer Simcha Blass and his son Yeshayahu, who created the first practical plastic emitter; an experimental system went in the ground in 1959, and the pair partnered with Kibbutz Hatzerim in 1964 to found Netafim, the company that commercialised and patented the technology. Far more primitive buried-clay-pot irrigation existed in ancient China around the first century BCE. 1 Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationModern development section, Plastic emitter/trickle irrigation subsection
Modern drip irrigation was invented in Israel in the 1960s. Such irrigation also improved the efficiency of fertilizer use, as well as water.
- Associated With: Micro-irrigation, lead section
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