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Straight answers about irrigation — what suits your crop, what size pipe you need, and why things fail. No sales pitch.
Drip for paddy? No — paddy is a conveyance job
Drip for paddy is the wrong question — a flooded crop needs water moved, not dripped. What actually does that work, and the pipe sizes that fill plots fast.
14 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for banana: sizes, grades and the two pitfalls
Which drip laterals suit a banana crop, why the heavy wall earns its keep over a year in the ground, and the two mistakes banana buyers repeat.
14 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for orchard rows: sizes, grades and the pitfalls
Orchard trees take the least drip pipe of any planting — if the system is built for the mature canopy. Sizes, the online-emitter choice, and two pitfalls.
13 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for groundnut? Usually not — and what fits instead
Asked for drip for groundnut, we usually talk you out of it. The arithmetic that says so, the rain pipe that fits, and the one case drip still earns.
12 September 2026 · 2 min read
Drip for cotton: when it pays, and the pitfalls
Cotton is the crop drip pays back fastest on. When that is true, which lateral grades survive the season, and the pitfalls cotton buyers keep hitting.
12 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip for chilli: sizes, grades and the two pitfalls
Chilli needs more lateral per acre than almost any drip crop. The grades that fit a single season, the metres to expect, and the two buying mistakes.
11 September 2026 · 3 min read
Drip fitting price per piece: what the box rate means
Almost every fitting shows a piece price and a box rate. Which one you pay, the three products where a minimum applies, and when the box is worth buying.
10 September 2026 · 4 min read
How to check irrigation pipe quality before you pay
Five checks any buyer can do at the counter or on the truck — wall, weight, printing, flex and finish — and the price-list tells that give cheap pipe away.
9 September 2026 · 4 min read
How to size a drip irrigation system in two numbers
Our estimator sizes a drip system from just crop and acres. Here is what it assumes, which numbers to check on your own field, and when to trust the result.
7 September 2026 · 3 min read
Pepsi drip: what the name means, and what to buy
Pepsi drip is the trade name for flat drip tape. What it costs per metre, how it differs from round inline pipe, and when the thin wall is the right buy.
5 September 2026 · 4 min read
Your borewell decides your acreage, not your field
A 3,000 lph bore running six hours waters about one acre of cotton on drip. Here is the arithmetic, and what to do when the field is bigger than the water.
5 September 2026 · 5 min read
Drip, sprinkler or rain pipe: a decision guide by crop
Row spacing, water source and budget decide which of the three methods fits. Here is the reasoning, crop by crop, with what each one costs.
5 September 2026 · 4 min read
