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All concepts →An irrigation canal is to be designed to deliver 10 cumec to meet the peak demand of 7500 hectare of cropped area. The estimated canal losses are 50 % of the head discharge. The du...
A canal supplies water to an area growing wheat over 100 hectares. The duration between the first and last watering is 120 days, and the total depth of water required by the crop i...
A reservoir with a live storage of 300 million cubic metre irrigates 40000 hectares (1 hectare = 10⁴ m²) of a crop with two fillings of the reservoir. If the base period of the cro...
The intensity of irrigation for the Kharif season is 50% for an irrigation project with culturable command area of 50,000 hectares. The duty for the Kharif season is 1000 hectare/c...
The culturable command area of a canal is 10,000 ha. The area grows only two crops-rice in the Kharif season and wheat in the Rabi season. The design discharge of the canal is base...
The two columns below show some parameters and their possible values. Parameters Value P-Gross Command Area I-100 hectares/cumec Q-Permanent Wilting Point II-6℃ R-Duty of canal wat...
The transplantation of rice requires 10 days and total depth of water required during transplantation is 48 cm. During transplantation, there is an effective rainfall (useful for i...
An agricultural land of 437ha is to be irrigated for a particular crop. The base period of the crop is 90 days and the total depth of water required by the crop is 105cm. If a rain...
The culturable command area for a distributary channel is 20,000 hectares. Wheat grown in the entire area and the intensity of irrigation is 50%. The kor period for wheat is 30 day...
If duty (D) is 1428 hectares/cumec and base period (B) is 120 days for an irrigated crop, then delta ($$\Delta$$) in meters is given by