improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . june 2016 this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . november 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message driptech inc. industry agriculture irrigation pipe founded california 2008 number of employees 40 website www.driptech.com driptech inc. is a company engaged in making of irrigation equipment a type of drip irrigation method . the company won awards for its innovative low cost drip irrigation system eliminating expensive and complex emitters used by traditional drip irrigation systems . 1 the company is based out of mountain view california . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 see also 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links history edit company founder peter frykman has a working model of his driptech system in his california office . in the spring of 2008 three stanford university graduate students from the schools of business engineering and design joined forces in a course called entrepreneurial design for extreme affordability . the team traveled to ethiopia to see where they could apply their talents to help arriving in the middle of the worst drought ethiopia had experienced in 20 years . the farmers they met had no means to grow crops with the scarce water resources available . the drip irrigation products that were locally available were too expensive for most farmers and seldom worked properly . these farmers needed better less costly more effective ways to use their meager water supplies efficiently . the team returned to the stanford hasso plattner institute of design d.school and invented a new manufacturing technology that makes clean consistent holes in super low cost plastic tubing . the resulting product works better and more reliably than the competition at 2 5x less cost . with this success mechanical engineer peter frykman put his plan to get an engineering ph.d. on hold and incorporated driptech to manufacture and sell drip irrigation tubing for developing markets across the globe . 2 3 operations edit the company has operations in india and china . in india it supplies equipment for small farmers in karnataka jharkhand and tamil nadu through the distribution network of godrej agrovet . 4 see also edit agriculture and agronomy portal references edit driptech launches new low cost drip irrigation systems . the hindu . chennai india . january 19 2011 . driptech about us lahart justin january 26 2011 . for small businesses big world beckons . the wall street journal . low cost drip irrigation system to help ryots . the times of india . january 14 2011 . further reading edit wong venessa november 12 2009 . a big idea for little farms . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved june 10 2012 . bajaj vikas february 14 2011 . for india s farmers a bare bones drip system . the new york times . retrieved june 10 2012 . external links edit official website driptech official youtube channel retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title driptech & oldid 723648780 categories low flow irrigation systemsirrigationwater conservationsustainable gardeninghidden categories orphaned articles from june 2016all orphaned articlesarticles lacking reliable references from november 2014all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 4 june 2016 at 08 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view