Helping you grow more with less
Netafim builds its success on its quality products, the expertise of its employees, and years of accumulated knowledge and experience from designing and applying its products and systems.
Farmers are not necessarily concerned with the technical details of a dripper. Their core concern is what the dripper delivers, says Jerry Austen, product manager at Netafim South Africa. A crop needs a dripped supply of water into the root zone, on demand, over its lifespan. “This dripped supply should never vary or decrease over time. It must be accurate and constant over the crop’s lifespan. For a farmer, this is the essential feature of a dripper,” adds Austen.
This is where the distinction of Netafim’s solutions from other irrigation products lies, the reliability of its products add value it adds on farm level.
Netafim adds value to agriculture around the globe with the production of more than 20 billion drippers per year. In South Africa, Netafim adds value by making irrigation solutions, be it drippers or sprinklers, available for around 30 000 hectares of new or replacement plantings per year. Netafim builds its success on its quality products, the expertise of its employees, and years of accumulated knowledge and experience from designing and applying its products and systems.
Wide Range
Driven by our slogan, ‘Grow more with less™’, our focus goes beyond drip irrigation. We offer holistic irrigation solutions to all farmers. The aim? To empower farmers to grow more with less.
Our offer includes a wide range of leading irrigation and complementary solutions across all crops, conditions and terrains. This includes drippers and dripperlines, micro and macro sprinklers, valves, filters, water meters, crop management technology (CMT) and ever-developing digital farming solutions.
Our greatest goal is to overcome stumbling blocks. Working in an agricultural environment, implies a host of physical challenges to irrigation and crop production in general. These are challenges such as dripper clogging, root penetration, sloping fields or orchards, poor water quality, low water pressure and more. In our products, technology and smart solutions are used to overcome these challenges. The result is solutions that add value through accurate water and nutrient delivery, reduced water and electricity usage, a lower labour requirement, less maintenance, and greater durability. Solutions come in the form of pressure-compensated drippers, high durability dripperlines, fully automatic self-cleaning disc filters, ultrasonic bulk water meters, reliable and durable sprinklers and much more.
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A Wealth of Knowledge
The Netafim sales team is structured as technical advisors, rather than sales consultants. We sell our products through a retail network, while the agronomy team offers unique agronomic support.
According to Etienne Erasmus, managing director of Netafim South Africa, the team is structured like this to ensure that each end-user of a Netafim product has access to the expertise to apply the product optimally in order to get the maximum return on investment.
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Netafim has 29 business units around the world. Each employee in the office or the field is backed by a wealth of knowledge from across the globe. This means that every effort is made to solve a client’s request.
The Netafim experts love to share their knowledge, visit the Netafim Knowledge Hub to read informative articles. Click here.
Industry Leaders
For more than 50 years, Netafim has been the leader in drip irrigation and other smart irrigation solutions. Some of the many irrigation solutions pioneered by the company include low flow dripper technology, pressure- compensating dripper technology, and turbulent dripper flow paths to lower the risk of clogging.
Netafim prides itself in playing a crucial role in the development of irrigation knowledge and trends in the various South African agricultural industries. Our approach is to support research that could improve the farmer’s position, assist in disseminating this research as well as actively taking part in research and developing new irrigation concepts.
Click here to read the full story about the history of drip irrigation on wine grapes.
Drip technology has developed massively in the recent years. One of the most important developments in drip irrigation is low flow drippers, an area in which Netafim plays a leading role. We can now accommodate lower flow rates in drippers without increased fear of dripper clogging as Netafim’s low flow drip technology makes it possible to implement low flow rates, while maintaining clog resistant flow path dimensions.
Click here to read a farmer’s excited testimonial of low flow technology.
This development has made it necessary to rethink irrigation strategies, to fully utilise the potential of this technology. Several of Netafim South Africa’s experts have been working hard to develop the pioneering Centralised Low Flow Drip Fertigation concept to lead the industry in making full use of low flow drip technology.
Excellence in Design
Netafim prides itself in the quality design and manufacture of its patented irrigation solutions. The company owns more than 250 patents and has more than 150 in the pipeline. All products are ISO-certified and subject to a strict quality testing process.
Remember, the quality of a product depends on both its technical features and the way it is designed and manufactured. The way a dripper, for example, is designed and manufactured is the secret factor that makes the difference between a good quality and poor-quality dripper, if all technical aspects are equal. If the dripper flow path is not optimally designed and manufactured, clogging risk, for example, will be higher. Other specifications will have to be adjusted to compensate, which may have other detrimental effects on overall dripper efficiency.
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Netafim’s employees, from its management to every technician, operates with a single goal in mind: to ensure constant, precise water delivery in order to help the farmer grow more with less.
A key part of this is the reliability that is built into Netafim’s drippers and sprinklers. All products are designed and manufactured to decrease clogging risk, and the use of high-quality, durable materials ensures that the longevity of each product can be guaranteed. Netafim products installed in fields, orchards and vineyards can be relied upon to deliver water and nutrients accurately and uniformly, season after season.
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