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by riffraff 2518 days ago
Is drip-based watering used at scale?
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It is.

t-tape for instance is widely used commercially for irrigation of high value horticultural crops like strawberries, tomatoes, peppers etc.

also drip systems (with individual emitters, not t-tape) are used commercially in many tree crops (citrus etc).

https://rivulis.com/product/drip-tapes-drip-lines/t-tape-dri...

However for agronomic crops (like corn, wheat, soybeans, alfalfa etc), which occur in mass plantings I'm not aware of any drip applications. Certainly at minimum if drip is used for these crops, it is extremely rare and probably not practical.

At what scale?
Large commercial monocultures, rather than personal vegetable gardens
Drip irrigation is heavily relied on by commercial farms in Israel