Drainage and Irrigation Water Management

Contents: 1. Verification of drainage design criteria/I. Srikanth and M.S. Shirahatti. 2. Surface drainage coefficient for Tarai of Kumaun Region of Uttaranchal State/Wondifraw Teshome and Yogendra Kumar. 3. Drainage studies for soybean in vertisols/Ramadhar Singh, Ravi Kishore and R.M. Singh. 4. Influence of sub-surface drainage on soybean crop production/Ramdhar Singh, Ravi Kishore, K.V. Ramana Rao and R.M. Singh. 5. Evaluation of irrigation practices under farmers\' fields through modeling approach/Rajinder Singh, Joginder Singh and Sanjay Poonia. 6. Effect of drip irrigation and mulching on Okra Crop in calcareous soil of North Bihar/R. Suresh and A.P. Mishra. 7. Effect of drip lateral spacing and crop geometry on yield and quality of tomato under drip irrigation/B.C. Thakur and R.S. Spehia. 8. On farm study of leveling effect in rice and wheat crop in Uttaranchal Terai/Radhey Shyam. 9. Vanita Jha and Jodh Pal Singh. 10. Evaluation of border irrigation system in medium textured soil/Harish Chandra and B.P. Yadav. 11. Probabilistic irrigation water requirement of major crops of Udham Singh Nagar District of Uttaranchal State/Yogendra Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Singh and Shashi Kiran. 12. Estimation of crop water requirement for different field and vegetable crops in Bhopal region/D.M. Bhandarkar, S.S. Dhakad, K.S. Reddy and R. Singh. 13. Hydraulics of water flow under surge irrigation in vertisol/K.S. Reddy, R.M. Singh, D.K. Singh, K.V.R. Rao and D.M. Bhandarkar. 14. Surface drainage solution to waterlogging in coastal area - a case study/N. Sahoo, H.N. Verma, S.K. Jena, P. Nanda and D. Sahoo. 15. Development and evaluation of micro drip irrigation system in farmer\'s field/R.K. Sahu and Vimal Navin Rao. 16. Evaluation of drip irrigation and plastic mulching on papaya cultivation/Vinay K. Pandey, H.G. Sharma and N. Agrawal. 17. Importance and applicability of filters for different quality of irrigation water - a review/A. Upadhyaya, A.K. Singh, M.K. Roy and S.R. Singh. 18. Infiltration under surge irrigation to furrows/R. Ravi Babu, T.B.S. Rajput and A.K. Bhattacharya. 19. Management of irrigation to cashew plantation through drip irrigation/S.T. Ingle, M.R. More, D.S. Narvankar and P.P. Bhor. 20. Estimation of reference evapotranspiration under the sub-humid climatic conditions of Rajasthan/S.R. Bhakar and Raj Vir Singh. 21. Studies of discharge performance of different types of emitters used in Drip irrigation/K.N. Sharma, P. Ghosh and P.C. Pradhan. 22. Evaluation of drain spacing equations in Indira Gandhi Canal Command/Rohitashw Kumar, S.R. Bhakar, R.V. Singh and Virendra Kumar. 23. RS and GIS approach for evaluation of irrigation status/R.K. Nema, Nitin Dubey and M.K. Awasthi. 24. Leaching losses from nitrogenous fertilizer under paddy wheat rotation in Punjab/J.K. Chawla, K.G. Singh and D.S. Taneja. 25. A model for predicting nitrate movement and leaching losses under wetland moisture regime/K.G. Singh and S.K. Sondhi. 26. Effect of water salinity on tomato under drip irrigation/P.N. Agrawal, R.C. Purohit and Jaspal Singh. 27. Socio-economic and technological consequences attributed to adoption of micro-irrigation systems in Maharashtra/S.M. Taley, R.S. Patode and M.N. Pawade. 28. Irrigation scheduling for onion under micro-sprinkler method of irrigation/S.D. Gorantiwar, U.S. Kadam, S.A. Kadam, S.D. Rathod and H.M. Patil. 29. On uniformity in micro-sprinkler irrigation system/S.A. Kadam, U.S. Kadam, S.D. Gorantiwar, R.S. Dhotre and S.M. Patil. 30. Determination of drainage coefficient based on crops tolerance to waterlogging for Udaipur Region/Amit Kumar, Devesh Sharma, Mahesh Kothari and Virendra Kumar. 31. Effect of different moisture regimes on yield potential of Onion (allium cepa l.) under micro-sprinkler irrigation system/U.S. Kadam, S.D. Gorantiwar, S.A. Kadam, G.B. Gurav and H.M. Patil. 32. Effect of drip irrigation and mulching on tomato crop in calcareous soil of North Bihar/R. Suresh and A.P. Mishra. 33. Development of a timer based surge flow irrigation system for furrows/K.S. Reddy, R.M. Singh, D.K. Singh, K.V.R. Rao and K.D. Gharde. 34. Scope of lift irrigation in Bhal - a case study/K.L. Bhoi, M.D. Vora, V.V. Sonani and K.H. Patel.

"Irrigation is the key input in crop production. Its scientific management therefore warrants study of the related engineering aspects; such as, its application methods, scheduling, crop water requirement and water use efficiency etc. in a systematic way in order to not only save considerable amount of water but to have sustainable agricultural productivity as well.

Excessive water application without considering the evaporative needs of the plants is mainly responsible for waterlogging and salt related problems in irrigated agriculture.

A considerable area, otherwise productive, has gone out of production due to the above reason. Therefore, irrigation and land drainage need to be tackled scientifically and almost simultaneously in order to check the gradual degradation of land and to achieve sustainable production to meet the country\'s future need of food and fiber.

The micro irrigation systems, which encompass irrigation through strip tubing, emitters, jets and micro sprinklers, have higher level of efficiency in water use coupled with higher yields. A detailed study of these systems under different agro-climatic conditions needs to be conducted before taking them to the farmer\'s field.

This book contains useful information on "Drainage and Irrigation Water Management" from the selected technical papers presented during the 37 and 38 ISAE Annual Convention and Symposium held at CTAE, MPUAT, Udaipur from Jan 29-31, 2003 and CAET, Dr. B.S. Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli from Jan 16-18, 2004, respectively." (jacket)