water management in horticulture
water management
- To make dry land cultivation of horticultural crop successful, it is very necessary to make use of natural resources available in conserved way without any wastage.
- For example, construct pounds to harvest rain water, ground coverage, establishment of side canals. In addition to this, open small ditch / trenches and streepages. With all these implied measurements in field conditions, deep rooted crops like Ber, Custard and Pomegranate are recommended to cultivate.
- The process of irrigating planted seedling near the roots, supply water drop wise slowly during course of water requirement from the plant, in equal interval of time, at basal rate is called as drip irrigation.
- Drip irrigation technology 40-70% of water is economically used, and available water is also supplied to 2-3% more area comparing to drainage system of irrigation. The yield obtained is approximately more than 20%. There are various methods of irrigating land.
- Earthen vessel burial (Picher): porous pot vessels are placed near the root of plant and filled with water, water is supplied slowly through porous at required interval of time.
- Drip irrigation / trough pipes
- More intensives are given by the government for cultivation practice in dry land to conserve water and moisture content in land.
- It effect on the initial growth of plant during 1-2 years. It is constructed in small water shed area depending upon soil type, level/sloppy land, rainfall water, water size of bund etc. The development of small water sheds helps in retaining water even if there is less rainfall near plants and farm land. Proper measurements should be taken care to conserve water by constructing bunds to avoid erosion losses by heavy rain fall.
