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The Asia's largest drip irrigation project involving 2,150 kilometres of pipeline will be started at Ramthal Marola area of Bagalkot district in Karnataka. The project is executed by one of India's largest infrastructure firms Megha Engineering & Infrastructures (MEIL) and it will be inaugurated by the Karnataka water resources minister MB Patil. It will be built with technical assistance from the Israel firm Netafim and it is the first project in India with Israeli drip irrigation technology. It will be maintained by MEIL for five years.