Over the last two decades or so productivity in agriculture and horticulture have gone to very high levels because of the increased adoption of drip irrigation and fertigation technologies. Jain drip farmers have hugely benefited from the systematic use of this twin technology. Given below is the yield enhancement data that we have collected over a period of 5-8 years from farmers from various states in India. The data emphatically proves the power of drip fertigation technology.

YIELD IMPROVEMENT UNDER HIGH TECH FARMING WITH DRIP AND FERTIGATION (INDIA)

		CROP	Yield under Conventional method (t/acre)	Yield under High tech cultivation with drip irrigation (t/acre)
CEREALS	1	Rice	2.0	3.9
	2	Wheat	1.8	2.9
	3	Maize	2.4	4.0
PULSES	4	Pigeon pea	0.6	1.4
COMMERCIAL CROPS	5	Cotton	0.7	2.0
	6	Sugarcane	32	70
OIL SEEDS (Orchards)	7	Oil palm	9.0	13.0
	8	Coconut	6000 nuts/yr/acre	8400 nuts/yr/acre
FRUITS (Orchards)	9	Banana	20	36
	10	Pomegranate	6 (10th yr)	9 (5th yr)
	11	Mango	2.5 (12th yr)	6.5 (5th yr)
	12	Guava	4	10
	13	Papaya	23	35
	14	Citrus- Orange	4	8
	15	Sweet lime	9	15
	16	Custard apple	3	5
	17	Water melon	10	19
	18	Grapes	10	25
	19	Cashew nut	0.65	1.2
	20	Apple ##	4.8	2.4
	21	Strawberry$	...	15
VEGETABLES	22	Onion	6	14
	23	Potato	10	21
	24	Brinjal	14	26
	25	Tomato	25	40
	26	Okra	6	13
	27	Beans	7	11
	28	Gourds ( Bitter gourd)	6	10
	29	Chilly (dry)	2.5	4.0
	30	Gherkin (cucumber)	7.0	11.0
	31	Capsicum	12.0	30.0
PLNATATION CROPS	32	Coffee	450 kg/acre	600 kg/acre
	33	Tea	1000 kg/acre	1800 kg/acre
	34	Cocoa (as Intercrop in coconut)	256 kg/acre	320 kg/acre
SPICES	35	Cardamom (dry)	67.6 kg/acre	264 kg/acre
	36	Black pepper (dry)	550 kg/acre	850 kg/acre
	37	Ginger	6.0	9.0
	38	Turmeric (dry)	2.5	5.3
Seasonal Oil seeds	39	Canola/Mustard	0.7	1.3
	40	Sunflower	0.45	1.0
	41	Ground nut	0.4	1.2
	42	Soybean	0.6	1.4
	43	Castor	1.0	1.5
TUBER CROPS	44	Cassava	10.0	16.0
Source: P Soman, Jain irrigation -collected from farmers. $ no one grows Straw berry with conventional method ## Indian Apples are generally low yielding varities