Modeling the future of irrigation: A parametric description of pressure compensating drip irrigation emitter performance

Drip irrigation is a means of distributing the exact amount of water a plant needs by dripping water directly onto the root zone. It can produce up to 90% more crops than rain-fed irrigation, and reduce water consumption by 70% compared to conventional flood irrigation. Drip irrigation may enable mi...

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Main Authors: Shamshery, Pulkit (Contributor), Wang, Ruoqian (Contributor), Tran, Davis V. (Contributor), Winter, Amos G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Global Engineering and Research Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2017-06-20T13:35:28Z.
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