Design of a farm layout for irrigation with limited discharges |
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| Authors: | VVDhruva Narayana VD Kalra OP Singh |
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| Institution: | Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal 132001, Haryana India |
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| Abstract: | In order to improve the irrigation efficiencies of small farms employing cavity wells for their water supply, an experimental study was conducted at the Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal. The cavity wells of the Karnal region do not have any discharge regulating devices for improving the irrigation efficiencies. The only way of improving these efficiencies is by designing an efficient irrigation layout, so that uniform water application is accomplished. The present study involves field determination of the opportunity time at each point along the border from advance and recession curves and computing the depth of cumulative infiltration from the infiltration rate curve. The irrigation efficiencies are also calculated from soil moisture measurements made before and after each irrigation.The results of this study show that a realistic field assessment of the irrigated border efficiencies is obtained through a soil moisture measurement procedure. The procedure, based on opportunity time and infiltration, overestimates the irrigation efficiencies due to the empirical nature of the infiltration equation. For small farms, with a limited discharge of 10 l/s, an irrigation layout of borders of 50–70 m in length and 6–8 m in width is recommended. |
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