Vol. 7 (5) : September-October 2016 issue
Green Farming Vol. 7 (5) : 1186-1191 ; September-October, 2016
A software for crop coefficient estimation and irrigation scheduling
A. GUPTAa1*, A. SARANGIb2, D.K. SINGHb3, S.S. PARIHARb4 and C. VARGHESEc5
aDivision of Agricultural Engineering, Pusa Campus, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi - 110 012
bWater Technology Centre, Pusa Campus, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi - 110 012, cICAR-IASRI, New Delhi - 110 012
Designation : 1M-Tech Student *(ajitagupta2012@gmail.com), 2,3,4,5Principal Scientist
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. : P-4669
Total Pages : 6
Received : 09 December 2015
Revised accepted : 21 August 2016
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Citation :
A. GUPTA, A. SARANGI, D.K. SINGH, S.S. PARIHAR and C. VARGHESE. 2016. A software for crop coefficient estimation and irrigation scheduling. Green Farming Vol. 7 (5) : 1186-1191 ; September-October, 2016
ABSTRACT
A software “Crop Coefficient Estimator and Irrigation Scheduler (CCEIS)” was developed for crop coefficient estimation and irrigation scheduling of wheat, maize, soybean and mustard crop using JAVA programming language. The background data base of the software comprised of crop coefficients of mustard, wheat, maize and soybean acquired from lysimeter experiment. It was developed using water budgeting protocol in which irrigation scheduling is suggested based on crop evapotranspiration and soil moisture information. The CCEIS software comprised of a computational module, graphic user interface (GUI) and background databases. Computational module includes calculation methods for estimation of crop coefficient values and preparation of irrigation schedules which uses soil parameters, crop parameters, climatic parameters and irrigation methods as input data. CCEIS software was tested under different scenario to predict crop evapotranspiration and irrigation scheduling of selected crops. Developed software is user-friendly having flexibility of periodic updation which can be used for judicious irrigation scheduling for enhancing water productivity of crops and cropping system of the region.
Key words :
Crop coefficient, Crop evapotranspiration, Irrigation scheduling, JAVA, Soil water balance.