Drip Irrigation is a cheap, efficient and planned process that can bring the next Green revolution in the country. Its a potential efficient way of irrigation for the crops.It directs the water directly to the plant's root system. As it allows direct transmission of the water, it can be used in some cases to mix fertilizers and nutrients with the water that can be directly supplied to the root system of the plants. Saves the water as the consumption decreases by 30% to 50%. Reduces the problem of salinization and water-logging. But its a bit expensive and there is an issue of clogging attached to it.

1. Innovation 4:Aries Agro & Drip System
TEAM NAME: BIZDOM
KUNWARBIR SINGH
ANJALI
ABHISHEK MANDLOI
SAMIR PRAKASH

2. About Aries Agro & Irrigation
 Started using drip irrigation system 10 years
back after getting the knowhow from Israel.
 Mainly used for the cultivation of potatoes
and bananas.
 Along with that it is sometimes used for
capsicum and tomato.
 It is a manual and planned irrigation process
that saves water where water is mixed with
fertilizers first and then supplied to roots of
the plants drop by drop at regular intervals.

3. Targeted Sector
 Vegetable Growers
 Small households
 Small-plot farmers
 Horticulture enthusiast

4. Development Imperative
 Potential efficient way of irrigation for
vegetables and fruits.
 Better use of scarce water resources.
 Better than field irrigation as fertilizers and
nutrients can be mixed with the water and
subsequently can be transferred to the plant’s
root system.

5. Benefits & Solutions Provided
 Saves water to a large extent.
 Manual and planned process.
 Direct transmission of water to plant’s root
system.
 Reduces the problems of salinization and
waterlogging.

6. Scalability
 Drip technology works best for large plots
where harvesting can be controlled from
single point and thus wastage of water can be
controlled to a large extent.
 Efficiency can be scaled at large by
combining adjoining farms.
 Since the system is not dependent on climate
and the soil conditions, it can implemented
easily across the regions.

7. Scalability(Cont..)
 According to Mr. Rakesh Gandhi, drip
irrigation crop producer : “ India will have
next phase of Green Revolution with drip
irrigation only. No other system can be so
efficient, cheap and as well as eco-friendly at
the same time”.

8. Price-Performance Parameter
 Since crop/vegetables prices are not decided
finally by the farmers, it’s largely decided by
the traders and whole sellers in the markets
so there is no impact as such on the price of
the crops but farmers get benefitted by
increased productivity and less water
utilization.
 Moreover, the soil related issues of
salinization and water-logging is overcome.

9. Social Equity Focus
 Previously only big-plots influential farmers can
use the canal water or other expensive sources of
irrigation. And the small-plot farmers were
dependent on the rain water for irrigation.
 Now with the advent of this technology
everyone is on the same platform and even
small-plot farmers can produce the same good
quality crops.
 Technology is open to all and readily available to
everyone.

10. Costing & Economical Impact
 Installation cost for the system : 30k per
bigha.
 50% subsidy is provided by the government.
 70% subsidy is provided if the irrigation
systems are bought in groups.
 Cost of the system can be recovered in 2
years.
 Once installed, the system has a lifetime span
of 10 years.

11. Costing and Economical
Impact(Cont.)
 Small-plots farmers will be largely benefitted
due to increased productivity and yields,
better quality crops, shorter span time for
maturity of the crops.
 Farmers implementing this technology
started to export the potatoes to McCrain.
 These farmers also started to produce surplus
amount of crops for consumption in other
parts of the country.

12. Key Stakeholders
 Small Farmers:-
- They get benefitted by increased
productivity
 Laborers:-
- Less work is required.
 Government:-
- Responsible for electric supply.
- Responsible for system awareness and
subsidies.
 Society:-
- Gets benefitted by better quality crops.

13. SWOT Analysis
 Strengths
-> Quality and Quantity Increases.
-> Reduced Labor cost.
-> Environment friendly.
-> Inter-cropping is possible.
 Weakness
-> It is expensive.
-> Requires clean water to prevent clogging.
-> Requires physical human strength.

14. SWOT Analysis(Cont..)
 Opportunities
-> Inter cropping.
-> Multiple farms can be clubbed for better
efficiency.
-> Pan India scalability because of less
dependence on climate.
 Threats
-> Clogging
-> Lots of vendors with the same technology.

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