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Irrigation for mango

From conventional 10 m spacing to high-density 5 m, mango goes on online drip: a lateral down each row and drippers at every tree. It is watered from fruit set to harvest, not all year.

Suits it best

Drip irrigation

Usual row spacing

5–10 m

Water need

2.5–8 mm/day

Water need is the crop’s daily use at full cover over Jan–May, at weather stations across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh — the spread is the season and the place.

Why drip irrigation

Trees 5-10 m apart. A lateral down each row with drippers at every tree — Telangana’s scheme puts mango on online drip.

A lateral down each tree row, rows 5–10 m apart, with 4 drippers at every tree.

What actually changes the answer

  • Water is held back after the monsoon to bring on flowering, then given from fruit set, January to May — the months the water figure covers.
  • At 10 × 10 m an acre holds 40 trees; at 5 × 5 m, about 160. Pipe and drippers scale with the planting, so tell us yours.
  • Trees over eight years old get two laterals and eight drippers under the state scheme. Budget for the second lateral as the orchard matures.

How much pipe would mango need?

Put in your acres and the estimator works it out against this crop’s layout, then prices the parts from our own catalogue at today’s prices.

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What you’d be buying

Drip IrrigationLDPE Pipes

Spacings and layouts on this page are published package-of-practice and state-scheme figures; water need is FAO-56’s crop-coefficient method on published Telangana and Andhra Pradesh weather records. Neither is a design for your field — soil, slope, water source and pump all move them. Send us your crop, acres and pump details and we’ll confirm the sizing before you commit.

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Where these numbers come from

  • PJTSAU (opens in a new tab)

    Telangana’s state agricultural university — the package of practices crop spacings in the state follow.

  • TNAU Agritech Portal (opens in a new tab)

    Crop-wise spacing, water requirement and drip layout references for southern India.

  • ICAR (opens in a new tab)

    Indian Council of Agricultural Research — crop agronomy and regional package-of-practices.

  • Telangana Micro Irrigation Project (opens in a new tab)

    The state scheme’s guidelines: which crops go on inline drip, online drip or sprinklers, and the spacings it funds.

  • FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56 (opens in a new tab)

    The reference method for crop evapotranspiration and crop coefficients that daily water figures derive from.