OOR ECO WATER BESTUUR

AN DIEGO, and ULYSSES, Kan., Sept. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rivulis and Dragon-Line, leaders in micro-irrigation and mobile drip irrigation pivots, respectively, are pleased to announce their exclusive partnership in USA, Mexico, and Canada; with this partnership, Dragon Line is launching a new Dragon Line Mobile Drip Irrigation System based upon a newly developed Rivulis drip line product for this application. This innovative system enables the transition of Center Pivots from Sprinkler Systems to Mobile Drip Irrigation. With this new system, farmers can achieve improved yields while utilizing significantly less water and reducing input costs such as fertilizers and diseases.

Mobile drip irrigation is an irrigation method that more growers could be benefiting from. MDI gets 10%–25% more water to the soil per gallon of water pumped than traditional MESA sprinklers. MDI has been found to use less water than LESA, and a similar amount of water compared with LEPA, and LESA has been shown to use about 18% less water than MESA. In addition, there was found to be 35% less evaporation from the soil surface compared with LESA after the water was applied. The primary benefit of MDI is that the water is applied more slowly over time, giving the soil more time to absorb the water. This means that MDI will have less runoff than LESA or especially LEPA. Growers should strongly consider MDI if they do not have enough water and have runoff problems. If they do not have runoff problems, then growers will likely be more interested in the lower-cost methods of LESA or LEPA.