About Book

The book is designed to cover the major ﬁelds of agricultural and environmental engineering such as weather, plant, soil, water, and basics of on-farm water management.

The book will be quite useful for the students of agricultural engineering. Students of other related branches of engineering sciences, and engineers working in the ﬁeld and at research institutes will also be beniﬁted.

The book may serve as a text book for the students and as a practical hand-book for the practitioners and researchers in the ﬁeld of irrigation and on-farm water management.

Utilization of the recent literature in the area and citation of relevant journals reports have added a special value to this book. Considering the topics covered, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and educators will ﬁnd this book as a valuable resource.

Irrigation is the Science of providing water to the lands in accordance with the requirements of the crops grown therein.

It has been found to increase the productivity of rain-fed lands by as much as five times in a tropical country like India.

However, the present utilisation (1997) is only 605 b.cum for all its uses. Out of this, about 500 b.cum, i.e. about 83%, is being used for irrigation alone.

Even with such a huge percentage of utilisation of water for irrigation, we are just able to irrigate only about 40% of our gross cropped area.
Additional waters are, thus, required to be developed for bringing additional cropped area under irrigation, to increase our food and fibre production.
The techniques which are employed for development and management of water resources become vitally important in this context, and have been lucidly explained in Irrigation Engineering And Hydraulic Structures.

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