date:Oct 13, 2017
s with the necessary pressure for the water sprinklers that are already in use, said Volker Schmidt, the Agrarian engineer of the Dominican Biotropic. The sprinkler needs about 1 bar in order to function. Newer systems can deliver this performance. That was a challenging part of the installation process.
The conventional watering method in the Dominican Republic is the so-called flood surcharge, which means that water is fed over the surface of the field. The water use is, however, unnecessaril