Irrigation 2 Flashcards
Water beyond field capacity stage is called?
Super available water
The presence of super available water in soil for an extended period is harmful for plant growth because of the lack of?
Flow
Solute potential is aka?
Osmotic potential
negative value of water potential in plant cells. It’s a measure of how much the presence of solutes in water reduces the water potential
Solute potential
or Osmotic Potential
Avg crop water requirement for SRI method of rice cultivation?
700 mm
Total quantity of water required by a cro irrespective of its source in a given period of time?
Crop water requirement
Evpotranspiration is one of the imp factors determining crop water requirement. It is measured through?
Lysimeter
Which crop requires the highest crop water duration?
Cotton
Rapid solar energy deployment in India pushed the country past ____ to become world’s 3rd largest solar power generator.
Japan
India: 5.8% electricity from solar
The top 4 countries in increase in solar generation in 2023 accounted for 75% of growth. What are the countries?
- China
- US
- Brazil
- India
A small opening of any cross section (shape) on the side or bottom of the tank, is called?
Orifices
A device used to measure rate of flow of liquid through a small channel or tank. Generally made up of a metallic plate.
Notch
A concrete or masonry structure, placed in an open channel over which the flow occurs.
Weirs
A device for measuring the flow of water in open channels when depth of flow is less - head drop is small, volume of flow is less channel bed slope is less, is called?
Parshall Flume
A device used for controlling & measuring irrigation flow. They are basically modified, submerged, variable area orifices (slide gates) at the upstream end of a length of smooth or corrugated pip, is called?
Meter gates
Grand Growth Phase is associated with? It is how many days long?
Sugarcane
101-270 days
Preceeded by Tillering phase
Global Food Security Index is prepared by?
The Economist Impact Team
113 countries
Water between field capacity (1/3 bar) and PWP (15 bar) is?
Available water
Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) was created to fast track 99?
Medium (2000-10,000 ha) or
Major irrigation project (cultivable command area of >10,000 ha)
Under LITF provisition, state can borrow from NABARD, with an interest subvention of ____% borne by the government.
7%
Only 4 states have more than half net cultivated farmlands under micro-irrigation, they are?
Sikkim
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Maharashtra
Acc to an impact evaluation study of micro irrigation by Dept of Agri, sound that irrigation cost is reduced by __-__% with an avg ____% through micro-irrigation schemes
20-50%
avg: 32.5%
States that have more than 30% under micro irrigation?
Sikkim, Andhra, Karnataka, Maha
Mizo, TN, Gujarat
____ irrigation project was declared as National Project under Sec ____ of AP Reorganisation Act 2014
Polavaram Irrigation Project
Section 90
Ratio of Water used consumptively to the water delivered to the field is?
Water Use Efficiency
Yield of crop per unit of water lost through evaporation