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Winter was a hard time. The trees were dying and I lost 15 saplings. I still did not have an irrigation plan and I did not know how to set one up. The 15 saplings cost 15*200=3000 and I was not willing to let that happen again. I started contacting irrigation agencies around my town to get quotations from them. Drip irrigation is the best form of irrigation for mango orchards. All of those were more than my budget and so I kept searching.
Every now and then some name would pop up through friends and every single time it would try to rip me off. Figures, I don't look like the kind of guy that would know about irrigation equipment. After three months of endless searching, I landed on an agent. My country's government provides subsidies for irrigation equipment and sure as hell I was not gonna let that go. So this guy set me up with the deed, I paid the money upfront and the wait for the equipment to arrive.
P.S. I still had no idea how to fix it in my farm WITHOUT A WATER SOURCE.
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