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Micro Irrigation

This document discusses different types of irrigation systems used in India and provides details on micro-irrigation systems. It notes that well and tube well irrigation makes up 60% of irrigated area in India, while canal irrigation has decreased from 39.77% to 29% between 1950-1951 and 2000-2001. Tank irrigation has also decreased from 14% to 4.6% during the same time period due to increased well irrigation and lack of tank maintenance. The document then provides more details on sprinkler irrigation, center-pivot irrigation, and drip irrigation - noting historical usage and current areas under these micro-irrigation systems.

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Micro Irrigation

This document discusses different types of irrigation systems used in India and provides details on micro-irrigation systems. It notes that well and tube well irrigation makes up 60% of irrigated area in India, while canal irrigation has decreased from 39.77% to 29% between 1950-1951 and 2000-2001. Tank irrigation has also decreased from 14% to 4.6% during the same time period due to increased well irrigation and lack of tank maintenance. The document then provides more details on sprinkler irrigation, center-pivot irrigation, and drip irrigation - noting historical usage and current areas under these micro-irrigation systems.

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Introduction, Importance & need of Micro Irrigation Systems in Irrigation

Commands
Prof. N Chalamaiah FIE, MBA, LLB

My Ph D is in
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF Lift Irrigation Schemes
For
OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES
I have worked in APSIDC from Feb 1975 to June 2003
to retire as Chief Engineer A P Well Project
Retired as Principal in Rishi M S Institute of
Engineering & Technology for Women in 2015
Presently working on NATURAL FARMING
Different types of irrigation and irrigation systems 

●Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the land or soil. 


●In India, the irrigated area consists of about 36 per cent of the net sown area.
Presently, the agricultural sector accounts for about 83 per cent of all water uses.
Irrigation in India is carried on through wells, tanks, canals, Perennial canal, Multi-
purpose river valley projects, etc.
Well and Tube Well Irrigation is 60 % of the net irrigated area in the country
against 29.2 per cent of canal and only 4.6 per cent of tank irrigation.
Canal Irrigation
The percentage of canal irrigation to total irrigated area in the country has fallen
from about 39.77 % in 1950-51 to 29 % in 2000-01.
Tank Irrigation
The ratio of tank irrigated land to the total irrigated area of the country has
reduced from 14 per cent in the 1960-61 to about 4.6 per cent in 2001-01,
primarily due to increase in well and tube well irrigation and partly due to non-
maintenance and disappearance of tanks.
Continued
• Canal Irrigation
• The percentage of canal irrigation to total irrigated area
in the country has fallen from about 39.77 % in 1950-51
to 29 % in 2000-01.
• Tank Irrigation
• The ratio of tank irrigated land to the total irrigated
area of the country has reduced from 14 per cent in the
1960-61 to about 4.6 per cent in 2001-01, primarily due
to increase in well and tube well irrigation and partly
due to non-maintenance and disappearance of tanks.
Micro-Irrigation or Localized irrigation
• Sprinkler Irrigation
• Though sprinkler irrigation system is known since 1946, yet the
farmers started adopting it in large scale only since 1980s.
• In the sprinkler method of irrigation, water is sprayed into the air and
allowed to fall on the ground surface somewhat resembling rainfall.
• The potential for coverage under sprinkler irrigation is estimated to
be about 42.5 million ha. Government of India has taken an initiative
to give subsidy to the farmers to an extent even up to 50% in order to
popularize this method of water application.
• Centre-pivot irrigation or Rotary Sprinkler
• It is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a
pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers.
Drip Irrigation
• The drip system was developed for field crops in
Israel in the early 1960s.
• The area under drip irrigation system in the USA is
about 1 M ha, followed by India, Spain, Israel, etc.
• In India, there has been a tremendous growth in the
area under drip irrigation during the last 15 years.
• At present, around 3.5 lakh ha area is under drip
irrigation with the efforts of the Government of India
and State Governments.

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