The importance of farm irrigation

in hive-195150 •  3 years ago 

Farm Irrigation is the process of bringing in water into your farm to ensure that it stays wet and productive espercially in the course of the dry season. One of the most important reasons for irrigation is to maintain an all year round production irrespective of the season.This can be cost effective and most affordable when well planned. A possible irrigation system is a factor to consider when establishing a farm anywhere .

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My brother harnessing water into our garden for irrigation purposes

Irrigation is a very important process needed in growing your agricultural products. Crops need water so much during the dry season to be able to survive. Irrigation is most important for the revegetation of the soil during the dry season or during periods with lesser irrigation consolidates soil prevention, weed suppression and much more. Irrigation helps farmer in several ways. One of the most obvious benefits of an irrigation system is it protects plants ,,crops and trees from suffering from droughts.A well irrigated farm will ensure that crops are getting the proper amount of water that they need.

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This garden can survive the dry season thanks to a good and functional irrigation system.

A properly installed irrigation system has several advantages for you and your farm. It save you time, energy and money from paying others to fetch water to keep the farm wet , manually.It also creates and maintains a green looking farm especially when you grow vegetables.
Watering manually may cost you more than you can imagine. Your manual watering system may fail you. You may need to consider a good irrigation system if you notice that there is inadequate water distribution, brown grass and dying plants. You may also notice that your irrigation system is old and has a bad sprinkler head, leaky valves or an improper drainage system there was a need to consider a replacement to ensure a great irrigation system in your farm. Thank you for reading.
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Its really not easy to do manual watering, thanks for sharing

It's never easy especially at the peak of the dry season

You have simply said it all. What a great write up.

Thank you sir🙏

Wow, how beautiful your farm looks. Thanks for sharing

It would look great when we'll irrigated.

You have some really good farming tips ehh

I need for buy farm then meet u personally with my book n pen

Start taking notes now oh .it's important.

True ooo
This manual watering thing we even tend to forget
This irrigation system is really good
Especially the one set on automatic timer

There is a much better industrial way of watering now that is much easier but we don't have them

Wow I love the farm, what's that you're growing??

It's celery and parsley

Thanks mom for this , irritating the farm is so good cus it help to increase production. And also serves to mitigate scarcity last food insecurity I just wish the government can incourage this aspect

If individuals have the means ,it's better to do it on their own than wait for government

Wow I love this lesson

Thank you so much

Thanks for sharing oh anti mer especially the advantages of irrigation very educative

Most welcome dear

Thanks for sharing!
Thanks to intuition
This pictures take me back to my teenage days when we usually check our farms to see whether some one hasn't tempered with our irrigation.

Very important.