Modeling the future of irrigation: A parametric description of pressure compensating drip irrigation emitter performance.

Drip irrigation is a means of distributing the exact amount of water a plant needs by dripping water directly onto the root zone. It can produce up to 90% more crops than rain-fed irrigation, and reduce water consumption by 70% compared to conventional flood irrigation. Drip irrigation may enable mi...

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Main Authors: Pulkit Shamshery, Ruo-Qian Wang, Davis V Tran, Amos G Winter V
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5383273?pdf=render