Impacts of Drip irrigation in India

Micro irrigation, earlier known as Drip or Trickle irrigation is a highly efficient method of water application. It developed and expanded globally at a fast rate in the last two decades in more than 35 countries with maximum coverage in the United States and India is not too far from it, it is also developing these types of systems. This is most appropriately applicable to widely spaced crops such as fruits, vegetables, and field crops. Its different variations consist of a surface trickle, bubbler, micro sprinkler, spray, mechanical move, pulse, subsurface drip, all of which are covered under a single term Microirrigation.