TARGET ORIENTED IRRIGATION SCHEDULING OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS THROUGH MICRO IRRIGATION

In the new era of agriculture where every thing is limited (water, land, and other inputs), the target oriented agriculture must be adopted in India. Considering every drop of water or each gram of grain is precious for the mankind, any kind of wastage of water or loss of crop production can not be afforded. The existing irrigation schedules of agricultural crops recommended by the scientists either under or over irrigate the crops many times resulting into either a lot of wastage of water or reduction in crop production. Also owing to their too many problems, farmers do not adopt these irrigation schedules as such as they neither result into increase in crop production nor save any water. Looking to the preciousness of water and importance of increasing crop production, the need of the hour is to reschedule the existing irrigation recommendations keeping in view the problems faced by the irrigators. An attempt has been made in this paper to sort out the irrigational problems faced by the irrigators with micro irrigation systems and also to solve these problems by rescheduling target oriented irrigation.