Tensiometers are ideal for irrigation scheduling of drip irrigation systems, and are field approved since many decades.
Advantages
A tensiometer offers many advantages for irrigation scheduling:
- Low cost
- Very accurate measurement value, even at low soil water potentials
- Easy interpretation of values
- Result is valid for all soil types
- Result not influenced by EC value of soil solution
Typical Applications
strawberry and softfruit, vegetables, asparagus, hops and fruit trees in open field, tunnels and glasshouses. tree- and grape-nurseries, scientific applications
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