The Netafim team is back! Kicking us off in this episode of Farmer’s Inside Track is agronomist Jovan Erasmas, who unpacks the versatility of their thin wall drip line irrigation Streamline X, suitable for both new and established producers.
In the episode, Erasmus explains why farmers should opt for these systems, not only when it comes to better maintenance management but overall input cost saving.
“We talking about drip irrigation and there are obviously a lot of different wall thicknesses associated with drip irrigation,” he explains.
Unpacking Streamline X, a single-use dripline which provides precise and economical irrigation for vegetables and open field crops, Erasmus says it is affordable. “Streamline X is a thin wall drip line which is suited to a seasonal market where you don’t really want a drip line that lasts five to six seasons. It is aimed at the one to two-season market.
“It can work for a more experienced farmer who wants to save more on input costs than labour and maintenance costs which can become high when you have that quality of water.”
Streamline X caters for the market
At the end of the day, Streamline X is a very good option and it suits a lot of needs.
“If you look at a thin wall drip line, you have to focus on the spacing of the drip line. You can have a thin wall or a heavy wall or have the same spacings. So it depends on what you want to do and the rooting depth of your specific crops,” Erasmus says.
Usually for fruit tree crops, the rooting depths are generally deeper and have wider spacing. However, when you look at vegetable crops, that generally brings the dripping space closer in order to be able to uniformly supply the water to a shallower root zone.
“With a thin wall dripper, we generally get 300mm spacings or 400mm spacings. Then if you look at fruity crops, we go to 600mm to 1m spacings. At the end of the day, the thin wall drippers mostly focus on vegetable crops with the shallower root zones,” he explains.
In this episode, Erasmus also discusses:
- Affordability of Streamline X;
- How Streamline X benefits producers; and
- Benefits of using Streamline X.
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