Countries like Cyprus, Israel and Jordan are already heavy users of drip irrigation.

Follow these steps to set up a drip irrigation system in your garden:

This was the beginning of what ultimately became Netafim, the global drip irrigation company.

It would also expand the company's innovative drip irrigation system.

Lavender plants were field-grown in sandy clay soil with plastic mulch under drip irrigation.

Private equity firm Permira owns 61 percent of Netafim, a pioneer of drip irrigation.

Already Senegal hosts several Israeli-funded projects looking at using low-pressure drip irrigation to increase productivity.

For a large garden, you may need elaborate soaker hoses, sprinklers, and drip irrigation pipes.

The fund plans to invest in agroforestry, drip irrigation, terracing and planting vegetation on riverbanks.

So the 56-year-old farmer tried something new: A drip irrigation system, supported by a government initiative.

When modern plastics became available in the 1950s, Blass realized that drip irrigation was technically feasible.

A drip irrigation system, which uses far less water, supplies plenty to grow those crops, he said.

Thus, TL is the recommended OW for use in semiarid soil under plastic mulched drip irrigation conditions.

But "this farm would not have been possible without the drip irrigation system", he added.

DRAWBACKS But sprinklers and drip irrigation do not work for all farmers, noted Amir of the PWP.

While the concept of drip irrigation has been around since the Persians, the technology has advanced markedly.