LABOUR SAVING

The use of hose-reel irrigation machines involves a minimum employment of labour for hectar per year, proportioned to the different kind of irrigation from cultivation to cultivation, which is surely lower in preparation and management both of drip-system and other equipments with fixed sprinklers. The tests made on compared equipments showed that the management of a hose-reel irrigation machine involves a very low yearly medium employment of labour, equal to 3-6 hours per hectare, whilst drip-systems require medium labour varying between 28-40 hours per hectare.