IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT

by DILIP KUMAR MAJUMDAR

Overview

The book, now in its second edition, provides an up-to-date comprehensive text on irrigation water management for students of agriculture both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The scope of the book makes it a useful reference for courses in agricultural engineering, agronomy, soil science, agricultural physics and environmental sciences. It will also serve as a valuable guidebook to those 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 several chapters have been updated to include latest developments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788120348264
Publisher:	PHI Learning
Publication date:	09/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

DILIP KUMAR MAJUMDAR, D.Phil. (Agriculture), is formerly Professor of Agronomy and Principal (Dean), Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has four decades of experience in teaching, research, rural development and agricultural extension.

Dr. Majumdar has presented scientific papers in numerous international conferences and has to his credit 67 research papers published in reputed scientific journals.

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 Indexa