{"Page URL":["https://www.appropedia.org/Drip_Irrigation_Turns_Gravel_into_Green"],"Page description":["What used to be a patch of gravel behind the Makombe homestead in Musipami village is now a thriving 100-squaremeter garden of green leafy vegetables — a small miracle in a remote and overpopulated village in a country () suffering from a complex economic, political and agricultural decline. USAID helped Mr. and Mrs. Makombe install a drip-irrigation kit for their garden — one of 24,000 plots established with the lowcost systems. Designed to save labor and water, enhance nutrition and improve , the average drip-irrigation kit is easy to install. It uses far less water than traditional bucket-watering, which is inefficient, wasteful and difficult. Even after USAID training, some users were initially skeptical that their plants would get enough moisture. But as more and more kits were installed, communities became convinced when they saw crop yields increase with half the water and labor investment."],"Page image":["File:Drip irrigation in Zimbabwe.jpg"],"Page keywords":["irrigation","agriculture"],"Page language":["en"],"Page license":["CC-BY-SA-3.0"],"Page title":["Drip Irrigation Turns Gravel into Green"],"Page views":[73],"Page year":["Tuesday, 01-Jan-08 00:00:00 UTC"],"Project coordinates":["-18.455497222222, 29.746841666667"],"Project location":["Zimbabwe"],"Project thumb":["https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/2/20/Drip_irrigation_in_Zimbabwe.jpg"],"Modification date":["Thursday, 27-Nov-25 22:33:28 UTC"]}