IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENTThe book, now in its second edition, fulfills the need for an up-to-date comprehensive text on irrigation water management for students of agriculture both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The scope of the book makes it a useful reference for courses in agricultural engineering, agronomy, soil science, agricultural physics and environ-mental sciences. It can also serve as a valuable guidebook to persons working with farming communities. The coverage in sixteen chapters brings out different aspects of irrigation including irrigation situation in the world, rainfall, evaporation, water wealth and progressive development of irrigation in India, measurement of soil water and irrigation water, methods of irrigation, irrigation with saline water, formulating cropping pattern in irrigated area and management of high water table. In the second edition, a new chapter on ‘On-farm Irrigation System’ has been included and a few chapters have been updated to include latest development. The book has useful research data and a large number of diagrams for easy comprehension of the topics. The end-of-chapter problems and numerous worked-out examples serve to aid further understanding of the subject. The book also contains an extensive glossary. |
Contents
Question Bank 271 Chapter 10 Scheduling Irrigation272294 10 1 Introduction 272 10 2 Time of Irrigation 272 | |
Irrigation PracticesinCrops295399 11 1 Cereal Crops 295 | |
Question Bank 198 Chapter 7 Methods of Irrigation 200234 | |
Crops 375 | |
Question Bank 434 Chapter 13 Irrigation and Cropping Pattern 435442 | |
OnFarm Irrigation System 466501 | |
Appendix A 503504 | |
QuestionBank 257 Chapter 9 Irrigation Efficiency 258271 9 1 Introduction 258 9 2 Project Irrigation Efficiency 258 | |
Common terms and phrases
Agron amount of water Andhra Pradesh area atmospheric available soil water border strip cells cent channel cm depth coefficient consumptive Dastane days Delhi depth of irrigation depth of water discharge drainage Effect of irrigation evaporation evaporimeter evapotranspiration factors field capacity flow flume frequency grain yield groundnut growth Gujarat Haryana ICAR increased Indian infiltration interval inthe irrigation requirement irrigation schedule irrigation water irrigations applied IW:CPE IW/CPE ratio Karnataka kharif level loam lysimeter Maharashtra maize Majumdar measurement method of irrigation mulch nitrogen number ofirrigation ofsoil ofthe ofwater onthe optimum orifice pan evaporation period plants Proc rate rice root zone runoff saline scheduling irrigation season significantly Singh Siruguppa slope soil water content soilwater Source sowing sprinkler stream sugarcane Tamil Nadu temperature tension thecrop thesoil three irrigations transpiration Uttar Pradesh water availability Water Management water need water potential water regime water requirement water stress water table water use efficiency weir West Bengal wheat