Irrigation Agronomy

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Importance of Water – the liquid gold. 2. Concept of irrigation management. 3. Irrigation-development in India. 4. Surface water resources. 5. Soil-water relationship. 6. Soil moisture constants. 7. Plant-water relationship. 8. Transpiration. 9. Crop water requirement. 10. Measurement of irrigation water. 11. Irrigation scheduling. 12. Irrigation methods. 13. Irrigation systems. 14. Irrigation management for field. 15. Management techniques to mitigate water scarcity. 16. On-farm water management. 17. Water use efficiency. 18. Water management for problem soils. 19. Water logging and field drainage. 20. Quality of irrigation water. 21. Seed hardening. 22. Antitranspirants in drought resistance. 23. Inter-basin water transfer for augmentation of water resources in India. References.

A comprehensive idea of Irrigation Agronomy is very essential for graduate and post gradate students of Agricultural Science. Irrigation consists of multidisciplinary principles, which have to be spelled out in a comprehensive way to understand the Irrigation ecology. Based on the above facts, the approaches can be made to manage the irrigation eco system in a productive way.

Hence, understanding, knowing, planning, organizing, executing and achieving of all Irrigation technologies need the concept and principles of Irrigation eco system.

It has wide range of principles not only related to Irrigation, but also it meaning on Agronomy in an easy way to understand. We hope, the text, composition and style in which it is made will impress the students of agricultural sciences. So far, to the best of our knowledge, there is no unique or singular option to have a glance of Irrigation Agronomy.

The topics identified and dealt are more relevant to the crop production, which is the ultimate aim of each and every individual.

This book has been written particularly for the students of agricultural sciences to make them understand the principles and practices of Irrigation agronomy and its role in food production.

The authors have more than 25 years of rich experience as teachers. This has helped them to identify and organize the topics without unnecessary technical complications, which is useful to the student’s community and irrigation mangers.