Less water, more biomass with the Buried Diffuser-drip irrigation technology (African Agriculture)

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The Buried Diffuser, an improved drip irrigation technique

by Chahbani Bellachheb

Drip irrigation is today worldwide known as a good irrigation water saving technique. But there is a new worldwide patented technology tested in farmers fields in arid lands in Tunisia which uses 3 times less water then drip irrigation to get the same yield. Farmer field trials show that for the same volume of irrigation water, the “buried diffuser” produces 3 to 4 times more then drip irrigation.

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