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Choosing a system
18 guides tagged choosing a system.
Drip for vegetables: tape, joiners and the relay year
Vegetable plots replant two or three times a year, and drip for vegetables has to keep up: thin tape, a box of joiners, and what the spine costs.
19 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for paddy? No — paddy is a conveyance job
Drip for paddy is the wrong question — a flooded crop needs water moved, not dripped. What actually does that work, and the pipe sizes that fill plots fast.
14 September 2026 · 3 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
