<p><span>This textbook is a comprehensive volume on sprinklers and drip irrigation and covers all the basic and fundamentals concepts related to these topics. It is the first book to considerΒ relative-flow-ratio as an evaluation criterion for both sprinkler and drip irrigation designs.Β It also dis
Irrigation Theory and Practice
β Scribed by A.M. Michael
- Publisher
- Vikas Publishing House
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 778
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This book is a comprehensive treatise on water resources development and Irrigation management. For the last 30 years the book has enjoyed the status of an encyclopedia on the subject, and in spite of the various innovations during the period, it has been in circulation because of its authoritative approach. It has now been thoroughly revised and updated, and thus, substantially enlarged.
β¦ Table of Contents
Utilization of Water Resources and Irrigation Development
Irrigation Wells
Water Lifts and Pumps
Lift Irrigation Systems and their Design
Measurement of Irrigation Water
Open Channel Distribution in Command Areas
Underground Pipeline System
Land Grading and Field Layout
Soil-Plant-Water Relationships
Water Requirement of Crops and Irrigation Management
Surface Methods of Water Application
Sprinkler Irrigation
Drip Irrigation
Salt Management in Irrigated Agriculture
Economic Evaluation of Irrigation Projects and Water Pricing Policy β’Appendices
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Much hope has been vested in pricing as a means of helping to regulate and rationalize water management, notably in the irrigation sector. The pricing of water has often been applied universally, using general and ideological policies, and not considering regional environmental and economic differen
This book contains 14 separately authored chapters on the pricing of irrigation water. The chapters are entitled: (1) Water pricing in irrigation: the lifetime of an idea; (2) Water pricing in irrigation: mapping the debate in the light of experience; (3) Why is agricultural water demand unresponsiv
New York: McGraw-Hill book company, Inc., 1915. β 254 p.<br/>In the preparation of this volume and of the two following larger volumes, the author has endeavored to present a book which will fill the needs of teachers and students in technical<br/>colleges and universities and which may be used as a