Drip irrigation

 Drip irrigation is a specialised irrigation techniques that allows watering to the plant root through pipe or tubes.

It is a techniques that allows controlled watering to the root zone soil. It moist soil effectively as well as prevent maximum water loosing through evaporation. The deep perlocation also reduce the usage of water.

The drip irrigation is a specialised types of micro irrigation process. Specially managed drip irrigation introduces water conservation. 

There have a lot of advantages of drip irrigation.

Efficiency of water use 

Less loss of nutrient and fertiliser 

Field levelling is not mandatory 

Less soil erosion 

Less weed growth 

Fertigation

Less disease prone due to not wetting of foliage 

Uniform water distribution 

Less energy required 

Reduced labour cost 

Besides of advantages of drip irrigation there have some disadvantages.

Polymer degradation of tubes for sunlight 

Polymer degradation may release estrogenic  chemicals

Bioclogging may happen if the equipment is not maintain properly.

Another types of drip irrigation to reduce deep percolation and run off is pulsed irrigation that waters in controlled way in specific time gap.