Drip irrigation is a type of micro-irrigation that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either from above the soil surface or buried below the surface. Drip irrigation is used in farms, commercial greenhouses, and residential garden.
Drip irrigation is adopted extensively in areas of acute water scarcity and especially for crops and trees such as , containerized landscape trees, grapes, bananas, eggplant, citrus, strawberries, sugarcane, cotton, maize, and tomatoes.
Drip irrigation is sometimes called trickle irrigation and involves dripping water onto the soil at very low rates (2-20 litres/hour) from a system of small diameter plastic pipes fitted with outlets called emitters or drippers.
