Why Drip Irrigation?
Traditional viticulture practices in Europe have excluded vineyard irrigation. However, in today's challenging and dynamic climatic and economic environment, irrigation is more and more accepted as an essential tool to ensure consistent yield quality.

Traditional irrigation methods cannot efficiently manage scarce and valuable water resources, or consistently deliver the quality yields required to ensure excellent vintages year after year.

In both flood/furrow and overhead sprinkler irrigation, up to 50% of water applied is wasted through evaporation and runoff. Further, the uncontrolled nature of these irrigation methods allows no control over vegetation, and no control over other quality parameters, such as bunch size and berry size, or over maturity parameters, like sugar, phenolics, and aromatic component levels.

In order to maintain the delicate control necessary over plant water intake required for consistent yield quality, a more advanced vineyard irrigation regime is needed.

Netafim Drip Irrigation for Vineyards
Through eleven generations of advanced irrigation systems developed over the course of 30 years, Netafim has refined and perfected its superior drip irrigation solutions. Over the past 20 years, Netafim has cultivated and earned a reputation for irrigation quality in both "new world" and "old world" vineyards.

• Precise growth control: Netafim drip solutions are ideal for accurate semi-stressed growing, helping precisely implement RDI (restricted Deficit Irrigation) strategy.
• Uniform distribution: with Netafim drip, each vine gets exactly the same amount of water, regardless of field location, topography, slope, or soil.
• Water conservation: Netafim drip irrigation solutions use significantly less water – around 1-2mm per week. Also, by delivering water directly to vine roots, Netafim drip lowers evaporation water loss by up to 50%.