Irrigation is an essential process in agriculture. It is the artificial process of applying controlled amounts of water to crops to fulfill their water requirements. Irrigation has been around for thousands of years, existing in parallel with agriculture. The process has seen various evolutions over the past when compared to the earliest methods. There are many different ways of irrigating the crop fields, but Drip Irrigation happens to be the most efficient.
By far, the most water-efficient system of irrigation, this method is best to counter the general water loss in irrigation. In this system, water is supplied at or near the root zone of plants, one drop at a time.
There are several methods of irrigation available. Everything revolves around the quantity of water supply and way of doing it. Before talking about irrigation practices in, it must be realised that agriculture is also done without irrigation, where water supply is solely dependent on rainfall. It is called rain-fed agriculture.
Micro-drip irrigation is an innovation that probably is a solution to the problem. The concept of creating a plastic drip irrigation system was of an Israeli engineer named Simcha Blass. This system was revolutionary in the sense that it greatly reduced water wastage or increased water use efficiency in agriculture.