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Drip for banana: sizes, grades and the two pitfalls

Which drip laterals suit a banana crop, why the heavy wall earns its keep over a year in the ground, and the two mistakes banana buyers repeat.

14 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Drip for sugarcane: built to outlast the ratoons

Drip for sugarcane stays buried for years, not months. The wall that survives ratoons, the paired-row lever, and what the water bill says.

13 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Drip for orchard rows: sizes, grades and the pitfalls

Drip for orchard rows takes the least pipe of any planting — if the system is built for the mature canopy. Sizes, the online-emitter choice, two pitfalls.

13 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Drip for pomegranate: control decides the crop

Drip for pomegranate is less about saving water than commanding it — resting blocks on purpose, ripening fruit without cracks, keeping alleys dry.

12 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Drip for groundnut? Usually not — and what fits instead

Asked for drip for groundnut, we usually talk you out of it. The arithmetic that says so, the rain pipe that fits, and the one case drip still earns.

12 September 2026 · 2 min read

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Drip for cotton: when it pays, and the pitfalls

Drip for cotton pays back fastest of any field crop. When that's true, which lateral grades survive the season, and the pitfalls cotton buyers keep hitting.

12 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Drip for chilli: sizes, grades and the two pitfalls

Chilli needs more lateral per acre than almost any drip crop. The grades that fit a single season, the metres to expect, and the two buying mistakes.

11 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Drip fitting price per piece: what the box rate means

Every drip fitting price per piece comes with a box rate beside it. Which one you pay, the three products with a real minimum, and when the box is worth buying.

10 September 2026 · 4 min read

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How to check irrigation pipe quality before you pay

How to check irrigation pipe quality with five checks at the counter or on the truck: wall, weight, printing, flex and finish.

9 September 2026 · 4 min read

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How to size a drip irrigation system in two numbers

Our estimator sizes a drip system from just crop and acres. Here is what it assumes, which numbers to check on your own field, and when to trust the result.

7 September 2026 · 3 min read

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Pepsi drip: what the name means, and what to buy

Pepsi drip is the trade name for flat drip tape. What it costs per metre, how it differs from round inline pipe, and when the thin wall is the right buy.

5 September 2026 · 4 min read

Irrigation

Your borewell decides your acreage, not your field

A 3,000 lph bore running six hours waters about one acre of cotton on drip. Here is the arithmetic, and what to do when the field is bigger than the water.

5 September 2026 · 5 min read