Conventional irrigation, combinations of both skip irrigation and alternate skip irrigation techniques were made associated with levels of irrigation at 50%, 75% and 100% of total delta of water for sugarcane at the same location employing 120 cm apart deep trenches.
This method of irrigation was chosen to avoid positive or negative trends with respect to
conventional irrigation systems, both micro sprinkler as drip, so we could assess a manual irrigation very well controlled compared to irrigation performed by RIRRIG.
Treatments included
conventional irrigation (CONV), reduced deficit irrigation (RED),
conventional irrigation with DMPP (CONV-DMPP) and reduced deficit irrigation with DMPP (RED-DMPP).
Moreover, the
conventional irrigation methods practiced were less efficient, which caused larger application losses.
PRD technique is basically based on reducing the applied water used for
conventional irrigation in a given ratio, and wetting only half of the plant roots.
He enumerated that more than 60% water is lost during conveyance through canals and water courses and application in the fields adding that this is mainly due to unlined and poorly maintained canals, distributaries and water courses, unleveled fields, overirrigation and
conventional irrigation practices.
Therefore it is mandatory to promote modern irrigation methods and to manage existing
conventional irrigation methods.
Thrissur-Ponnani Kole Development Council is working hard to eliminate the
conventional irrigation systems in kole land for example petti and para which had been found to be incompetent due to their high power consumption.
0 lph drippers performed better over
conventional irrigation treatment as well as 0.
Also on display at the Qatar Sustainability Expo at the Doha Exhibition Centre are baskets of other produce grown in the Qatar desert using
conventional irrigation systems, including aubergines, courgettes and green peppers.
Two methods of Cucumber irrigation including in magnetic water and
conventional irrigation were applied.
sub-irrigation) and supplementing rainfall and/or
conventional irrigation.
