ACHIEVE UNIFORMITY AND ELIMINATE DISEASE IN ONIONS. INCREASE ONION HARVEST YIELD BY 70%
Drip Irrigation significantly enhances onion growth and survival.
Onions have shallow root systems so frequent irrigation is the best way to achieve high yields and uniform bulbs. Drip irrigation is the best choice for onion growers. Using waste waters from your raceway fish tank to drip-irrigate your young onions will help you achieve uniform onion sizes and eliminate disease.
Drip irrigate your onion farm
Superior Raceways is offering to build for you at your farm a raceway fish tank to grow 1,000 pieces of tilapia or catfish per harvest cycle. Water will be pumped into your fish tank by a solar-power borehole with capacity of 12 litres of water per minute. Using waste waters from your fish tanks to drip-irrigate your onions will stabilize your farm and reduce your risk during dry season weather. Inconsistent rain becomes irrelevant when you use superior precision irrigation.
Grow the best quality onions
Maintaining consistent soil moisture with drip irrigation restricts excessive root growth and reduces the risk of bulbs splitting.
Don’t waste fertilizer
Onion plants have shallow, fibrous root systems, so fertilizers applied in the beginning of the season end up getting pushed below the root zone by the rain, ultimately making the nutrients unavailable to the crop. Precision fertigation offers consistent nutrition that always reaches the roots and eliminates waste.
Less diseases
More onion yield
When you drip irrigate, water goes directly to the roots, leaving the leaves dry. Lack of leaf moisture significantly reduces foliar diseases such as downy, mildew or peronospora, minimizing crop loss and fostering up to 30% higher yields.
Efficient phosphorus application
Onions need soluble phosphorus to grow, but phosphorus has low mobility within the soil. With precision fertigation, you can apply consistent small doses as close to the active root hairs as possible, boosting phosphorus uptake by the plant.