Food & agriculture · 1965

Drip irrigation

Plastic tubes dripped water straight to each plant's roots, using far less than flooding.

Simcha Blass and Kibbutz Hatzerim founded Netafim in Israel in 1965 to commercialise drip emitters. Drip systems can cut water use by 30 to 70 percent versus flood irrigation and made desert agriculture practical.

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