METHOD OF VEGETABLE CROP CULTIVATION UNDER DRIP IRRIGATION Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A01G1/00 A01B79/02 A01G25/02 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: method comprises preplant tillage, layout and fixing flexible irrigation pipes with droppers built in their cavities, planting of sprouts of vegetable crops, weed suppression, application of herbicides and mineral fertilisers, harvesting and fall plowing. Before processing of the array the base station of the satellite navigation system is permanently mounted at a distance of not more than 50 km from the processed array. The boundaries of processed array are determined using the satellite navigation system. Size of the array is divided into parallel bands with the width of 1.40±0.02 m and their conventional boundaries are determined. At that the alternating bands are annually assigned for intensive use and fallow. On the bands for intensive use two irrigation pipelines are placed at a distance for each of 0.35±0.02 m from the conventional boundaries of the bands. The following year, before processing the array the conventional boundaries of the array and bands are restored using the satellite navigation system; the last year assignment of bands is changed, and the alternation of bands in years is carried out with biennial cycles.

EFFECT: method enables to restore annually the conventional boundaries of the processed array and bands with an error less than 0,02-0,05 m and to obtain the guaranteed annual yield of vegetable crops under drip irrigation.

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