Drip Irrigation for Third World Kitchen Gardens

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Drip Irrigation forThird World Kitchen Gardens
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• By
• Richard D. Chapin
• Executive Director Chapin Living
  Waters
• And
• William A. Chapin
• President Chapin Watermatics Inc.

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• Worldwide Droughts
• Result in
• Millions of People
• Going to Bed Hungry

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Unloading Relief Food

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• Billions Have Been Spent
• For Third World Relief Food!
• Then the Next Drought
• Creates the Need all
• Over Again

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Relief Food Distribution
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• Not only does the food have
• to be purchased,
• but it has to be distributed
• to the other side
• of the world.

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• Can Drip Irrigation
• be used to help poor people
• of the third world to grow
• their own vegetables ?

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Early Drip Irrigation
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• In 1960 Drip Irrigation
• was introduced to the
• Greenhouse Industry
• for potted plants.

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• Drip Irrigation Saved
• 1. Labor
• 2. Water
• 3. Fertilizer
• And helped to prevent the
• spread of diseases.

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Potted Mums
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• Growers all across the country
• soon began to install
• Drip Irrigation for their
• greenhouse benches.

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Norman Smith
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• In 1964 Mr. Norman Smith,
• Long Island County Agent,
• used Drip Irrigation and
• Plastic Mulch for a field
• of Cantaloupe.

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Mr. Bernar Hall, San Diego Farm Advisor,
ran a 5 Acre Tomato Field Test comparing
Furrow and Drip Plots
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His Published Paper Showed a Increase of 26.8
for Drip Irrigated Plots
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• Drip Irrigation soon spread
• to Tomato, Strawberry,
• and Pepper Fields in
  
• Florida, California, and
• Mexico

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Drip Irrigation in Florida
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Tomato Field
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Drip Irrigated Strawberries
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Peppers

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• Pineapple and Sugar Cane
• Growers in Hawaii
• were convinced that Drip
• Irrigation would save on
• production costs, and give
• them better Crop Control.

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Pineapple Field In Hawaii
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• In 1974 Catholic Relief
• of Senegal asked for help
• to grow vegetables during
• their dry season.

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Senegal 1974
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• A 50 Gallon Drum was Mounted
  6 Feet Above the
• Soil and Drip Lines were
• Connected for Each Row

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DRUM SYSTEM
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• This Worked Very Well !
• However
• It is far too expensive
• for a Family with little
• or no income.

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• Later in the 1970s a simple
• and inexpensive Bucket Kit
• was developed. It was found
• that a 5 gallon bucket one
• meter above the soil would
• provide enough pressure to
• Irrigate 2 Rows 50 feet long !

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• The same Bucket Kit
• can Also be Used For
• 4 rows 25 feet long
• or
• 6 rows 16.5 feet long

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• When it is first installed,
• the bucket should be
• filled 2 or 3 Times.
• This makes a wet spot
• at each outlet.

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• Then, a plant is transplanted
• in each wet spot, so that every drop of water
  goes directly to a plant.

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• Often the water used for
• Bucket Kits is rather dirty.
• To overcome this, a 3 stage
• filtering system is used.

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1st Stage A Heavy Cloth is Tied to
the Top of the Bucket

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• 2nd Stage
• A Screen Filter at the bottom of
• the bucket
• 3rd Stage
• An Internal Filter extending the
• full length of the Drip Lines.

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• The Drip Lines should be
• installed with the outlets up.
• This allows any Foreign particles
• to fall to the bottom of the tape
• where it can be flushed out the
• end.

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Training Seminar
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• Two Week Seminars and
• Two Day Workshops to
• Train Trainers have been
• held in many countries,
• with mornings in classroom settings
• and afternoons with hands-on field work.

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Preparing the Bed
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Laying the Drip Lines
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Transplanting
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• Usually, filling the 5 gallon
• bucket once in the morning
• and once in the afternoon is
• sufficient.
• However, when the growth is large and there is
  a very hot dry wind, it might need a 3rd filling.

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Larger Field
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• Schools, orphanages, and
• community gardens have
• requested a larger Kit which could drip
  irrigate
• 10 rows, each 10 meters long

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• This Kit is known as the
• SUPER BUCKET KIT
• It uses a 35 gallon plastic
• garbage container mounted
• one meter above the soil,
• and is filled once daily.

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• Small farms,
• with pressurized water,
• can use a 1/4 ACRE KIT
  
  
  
• to drip irrigate
• 2,000 feet of rows
• ( 20 rows 100 feet long)

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¼ ACRE FIELD

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Mr. Napoleon Dzombe
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• Mr. Dzombe donated the Blessings Hospital and
  has
• distributed many truckloads
• of hospital supplies and relief
• foods for people of Malawi.

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• His organization in Malawi has used 10,000
  Bucket Kits.

In 2004 he built a food plant.
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• Their goal was to provide
• a nutritious VitaMeal to
• 25,000 orphans daily.
• By Feb. 2006 they were up
• to feeding 86,000 orphans daily!

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• The trucks leave the plant
• for different locations to
• distribute to about
• 3,000 orphans daily

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Each orphan has a card showing the years months.
When they receive 30 days food, the month is
checked off.
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• Charitable Organizations
• always need effective use
• of their donors funds !

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• A heavy 15 mil Drip Tape is used for Bucket
  Kits to
• give long life.

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Tomatoes in 2005
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• 2005 is the 11th year that
• this same Bucket Kit was
• used in our test plot, and
• in 2005 it produced nearly
• 700 pounds of Tomatoes!

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• Bulk Bucket Kits can be delivered to most
  countries for about 8.00 to
• 10 .00 each in container lots.
• If the Bucket Kit lasts only
• 5 years, the cost would be
• about 2.00 per year.

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• What Organization
• can purchase hundreds of
• pounds of vegetables and
  
• deliver them to the other
• side of the world for only
  
• 2.00 ?

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• Chapin Living Waters
• is partnering with more than
• 2,000 organtzations in over 150 countries.

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• WE APPRECIATE
• all those who have helped third
• world people to feed themselves
• including
• Donors, Manufacturers, Trainers
• Volunteers, Charitable and Missionary
• Organizations, and Governments.

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• We are pleased to know that similar Kits are
  being manufactured in several countries.
• We encourage more manufacturers
• and organizations to help starving
• people and get this type of simple
• drip irrigation into their hands!

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• No COMPANY or
• ORGANIZATION
• can meet the needs of the
• WHOLE WORLD !

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• Presented at
• The Irrigation Association
• 27th Annual International Show
• On November 7,2006
• San Antonio,TX USA