Potato drip irrigation system
US7565767B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 18, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jul 28, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 18, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P60/12
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An arrangement is provided for improving the yield of potato crops. The arrangement includes a bed, a plurality of pairs of parallel rows of potato plants, and a drip irrigation tape. The bed is provided for multiple rows of potato plants. The plurality of pairs of parallel rows of potato plants in the bed have an inter-row gap between the rows in each pair of rows spaced from one another sufficiently to provide a moisture permeable agronomic soil corridor between the rows in each pair of rows to provide a supply of water to a root zone of each row within each pair of rows of potato plants while maintaining aerated soil within and above the agronomic soil corridor to reduce excessively wet conditions adjacent the crop canopy and a solar light corridor provided between adjacent pairs of rows to provide increased solar energy to the potato plants. The drip irrigation tape has emitters provided intermediate rows within each pair of parallel rows of potato plants below a soil surface of the bed in the agronomic soil corridor. A method is also provided.
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