The
irrigation of agricultural and
horticultural crops is a very important component of modern
agriculture for ensuring reliably high yields. In this context,
drip irrigation, and in particular underground
drip irrigation, is an approach that saves a great deal of water. However, previously known possibilities for
precision irrigation, in particular along drip hoses, are associated with a high level of complexity relating to additional
distributor lines, and thus a greater overall length of the hoses. The invention relates to a
drip irrigation system for automatic,
precision irrigation and / or
fertigation of areas of agricultural,
forestry or horticultural land. By combining planning and pre-configuration, the
present method process-reliably allows the drip tubes to be equipped with different configurations of the drip elements over the length of the drip tubes. Furthermore, by integrating
actuator units which have valves over the length of the drip tubes and different designs of the drip elements or different numbers of the drip elements per unit length of the drip tube in the partial lengths upstream of and downstream of the valve positions, the
present method and corresponding product make it possible to achieve different outflow amounts over the partial lengths, which outflow amounts are controllable in all directions. Here, in contrast to previously known solutions, no additional hose length is required.