Irrigation Water Management

Irrigation Water Management

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Publisher PHI Learning All Water Management books by PHI Learning
ISBN 9788120348264
Author: Dilip Kumar Majumdar
Number of Pages 572
Edition Second Edition
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About The Book Irrigation Water Management

Book Summary:

 

The 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.

This book is recommended in Central Agricultural University, Manipur, Assam Agricultural University, Assam.

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.

 


Table of Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1 General

Chapter 2 Water Wealth and Irrigation in India

Chapter 3 Soil-Water Relationship

Chapter 4 Soil Water Measurement

Chapter 5 Soil Water-Plant Relationship

Chapter 6 Estimating Water Requirement of Crops

Chapter 7 Methods of Irrigation

Chapter 8 Measurement of Water

Chapter 9 Irrigation Efficiency

Chapter 10 Scheduling Irrigation

Chapter 11 Irrigation Practices in Crops

Chapter 12 Quality of Water and Irrigation with Saline Water

Chapter 13 Irrigation and Cropping Pattern

Chapter 14 Irrigation and Fertilizer Use

Chapter 15 Water Management in High Water Table Areas

Chapter 16 On-farm Irrigation System

Appendices

Glossary

Subject Index