FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Low volume, drip, or dripperline irrigation is the application of water directly next to the plant, either with the water being applied on the surface near the plant, or in the ground, being delivered directly to the root zone.

No! When Netafim opened its first factory in the mid-1960's, there were already a number of people that had been working on this technology for over 25 years. But Netafim USA created commercial viability for drip irrigation by developing and mass manufacturing products for sale.

This spawned an industry that today is recognized as the most efficient way to water, and the way that the vast bulk of farmers irrigate around the world.

Netafim USA products offer a wide variety of advantages, including saving from 30% - 70% of the water used with overhead sprays, oscillating sprinklers or rotors, as well as much healthier plants and turfgrass. In fact, plants that are drip irrigated often grow to maturity as much as 50% faster, and do so with less disease.

Drip - Drip emitters, sometimes called point source drippers are well known by many people. A dripper is inserted into a pipe that feeds through a garden area, and is designed to provide water to a specific point. Hence the name "point source". In our site you will see a variety of point source drippers. There are two families of them,

The easy answer is anywhere. Netafim USA products, especially Techline CV and Techline, can be used in shrub and groundcover areas, in flowerbeds, vegetable gardens, and even in turfgrass. It has passed the rigorous tests that its use in Agriculture demand so you can rest assured that it will meet or exceed your quality and performance requirements. Remember that the slogan "The Irrigation Problem Solver" is not just words. As an irrigation contractor you often run into one or more of the application issues described above that overhead irrigation solutions just can't effectively answer.