How to install drip irrigation in an olive grove?

If you have an olive plantation, it is possible that you have asked yourself on more than one occasion what is the best way to water them. In this sense, there are different possibilities that we can opt for.

If you have an olive plantation, it is possible that you have asked yourself on more than one occasion what is the best way to water them. In this sense, there are different possibilities that we can opt for. From a manual type irrigation to the typical automatic sprinklers. However, there are other options that are much more responsible with natural resources and that can help us to be much more efficient and responsible.

We are talking about solar pumping for drip irrigation Granada. A possibility that will allow us to enjoy clean and free energy, solar, to be able to carry out the irrigation of our olive trees through low consumption. Sounds good right? Well, we tell you everything you need to know about it in order to start using it and enjoy its benefits.

STEPS TO CARRY OUT THE INSTALLATION

The first thing you should know is that depending on the space for which we need to assemble it, we can do everything on our own or not. If our terrain is small, we can follow this video tutorial by Leroy Merlin in which they show us how to set it up. However, if we have enough square meters of plantation, the best thing we can do is turn to specialists who will facilitate the entire process so we don't have to worry about anything else.

In any case, if you consider that it is something that you can carry out on your own, you will need to get an irrigation programmer, a filter for the system and a pressure reducer. With these three pieces we can begin to assemble our entire drip irrigation system for an olive grove. The first step of all is to make our irrigation plan to know where the tubes and drippers should go. Thus everything will be under control when mounting the installation.

Then we will have to connect our programmer to the tap that will give us water. A pressure reducer must be added to this programmer so that irrigation is carried out in drops. After that, it will be time to cut the tubes and measure the length of the hose that we are going to need. With all the pieces made, we will have to make all the connections and introduce the coteros into the ground, next to each olive tree that has to be watered.

ADVANTAGES OF DRIP IRRIGATION

It is possible that you are not entirely clear if drip irrigation is what you need for your olive plantation or not. However, you should know that it will allow you to benefit from a large number of advantages. If you do not know what they are, we will tell you the ones we consider most important:

• Water saving: drip irrigation, as is logical, is much more efficient than any other system for this purpose. In fact, the water savings can be greater than 50% compared to other methods such as sprinkling or flooding.

• Easy and comfortable: once installed, we will not have to worry about anything else since watering will be done automatically. You won't have to worry about watering them yourself multiple times a day.

• Constancy: the amount of water provided will always be the same, which will allow the same humidity to always be obtained and will prevent the plant from having to adapt to other circumstances of less regular watering.