Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Wheel Line Irrigation And Other Irrigation Systems

By Barbara Clark


Systems are needed to determine and understand which one is best to apply into the home and companies. In farming, it needs an irrigation system in order to control the water being poured over the crops. It can help in crop growth and land maintenance through the installed pipes and sprinklers around the area. Wheel line irrigation is one of the systems applied by farmers.

That irrigation system has an advantage of being simple to operate and to maintain. However, this can only be applied to lands that are less than fifteen acres. Moreover, small crops can only be sprayed with water due to its appropriate height. If they try to use it on taller ones, damage might be possible.

Water application onto the crops is to be spread using overhead irrigation emulating rain. The sprinklers have orifices that determine the size of droplets in diameter, volume discharge, and distribution pattern. One advantage of this system is labor will be lessened when doing maintenance. Meanwhile, one of its disadvantages is ripe fruits have the possibility to get damaged.

Intervals are applied when water is sprayed over the crops when they use center pivot irrigation. Crop sections will be sprayed continuously. The good thing about this is that the sprays will rain down each row there at once. Here, main pipelines deliver the water up to the said pivot points.

Drip irrigation has slow rates in water sprinkling onto the crops and soils. This only drips water at a speed of a minimum of two liters per hour. The root zones will be targeted so crops are assured to have proper amounts of water. Also, water loss as a result of evaporation will be prevented.

Subsurface Drip Irrigation also has the same objective and application as drip irrigation. However, the difference is that it uses emitters that are found along the pipelines and install it underground. That way, it will aim towards the root zone as soon as possible. The advantage of having this is that it allows plowing and other field works even during irrigation. Moreover, it lessens the labor of having to cultivate dry soil.

Flood irrigation is the oldest system there is. As its name suggests, it will flow large amounts of water down the built pathways and towards the crops. It has a sub type called furrow irrigation wherein narrow channels will help deliver water. Technicians and farmers are advised to only apply this on flat grounds to ensure leveling.

Simple definition for irrigation has been made by experts by separating it to three efficiencies. With efficiency, an individual can avoid wasting energy and effort on doing the task assigned to him. Irrigation efficiency or IE has conditions that technicians pay attention to that affects water usage and seasonal conditions. IE will measure the percentage that water will benefit the soil it flows through.

Another is AE, application efficiency. This meter will test each performance of the irrigation system on the agriculture farm. This pertains to the percentage of water that gets delivered to crops. Last is DU, distribution uniformity. This is used with AE for the determination of even distribution to crop sections.




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