Sentences with phrase «efficient drip irrigation»

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Drip irrigation for vegetable crops, in which small amounts of water are emitted right at a plant's roots, is estimated to be as much as 95 percent efficient.

For more on efficient water use in agriculture in dry regions, click back to my post on the pioneering work on drip irrigation by Daniel Hillel and read about how solar - powered pumping systems and drip irrigation are improving incomes and lives in sub-Saharan Africa.

Drip irrigation, or micro-irrigation, is the most efficient way to get the maximum crop yield from a unit of water, the report says; flood irrigation — still the most common form --- is the least efficient; sprinkler systems are somewhere in between.

Subsurface drip irrigation, in which buried tubing delivers water directly to plants» root zones, is the most efficient form of irrigation technology, but it is currently expensive.

Raising irrigation efficiency typically means shifting from the less efficient flood or furrow systems to overhead sprinklers or drip irrigation, the gold standard of irrigation efficiency.

Shifting to more water - efficient crops and switching from flood irrigation to drip irrigation are two ways farmers can boost water productivity.

Sprinkler irrigation, using the center - pivot systems that are widely seen in the crop circles in the western U.S. Great Plains, and drip irrigation are far more efficient.

He also called for modern efficient irrigation methods such as sprinkle, drip and trickle irrigation.

The most efficient watering system is drip irrigation because no water is lost through evaporation.

Drip irrigation systems that apply water only to the roots are the most efficient — and the most inexpensive — alternative.