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Row Crop Drip Irrigation On Peppers Study, Charles M. Burt, Stuart Styles
Row Crop Drip Irrigation On Peppers Study, Charles M. Burt, Stuart Styles
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
High Rise Farms, located just north of Morgan Hill installed a new buried row crop drip irrigation system in 1993. The amount of the CEC loan was $42,700.
The installation of the drip irrigation system on the Peppers did provide significant improvements in the amount of water use, energy required and yield increases especially in the first year of operation (1993) and the third year of operation (1995). The second year of the project (1994) did not have yield increases. The primary lessons learned from this project included:
- The yield differential between drip and the furrow irrigation methods was attributed …