About: What is irrigation?

 

Irrigation is the artificial application of water to land for the purpose of agricultural production. Effective irrigation will influence the entire growth process from seedbed preparation, germination, root growth, nutrient utilisation, plant growth and regrowth, yield and quality.

The key to maximising irrigation efforts is uniformity. The producer has a lot of control over how much water to supply and when to apply it but the irrigation system determines uniformity. Deciding which irrigation systems is best for your operation requires a knowledge of equipment, system design, plant species, growth stage, root structure, soil composition, and land formation. Irrigation systems should encourage plant growth while minimising salt imbalances, leaf burns, soil erosion, and water loss. Losses of water will occur due to evaporation, wind drift, run-off and water (and nutrients) sinking deep below the root zone.

 

 

Choosing an irrigation system 

 

There is a huge diversity in the types of irrigation technologies/systems used, which is attributable to,

v  Variations in soil types

v  Varying topography of the land

v  Availability of power sources

v  Availability of water

v  Sources of water

v  The period of time when the system was installed

v  The size of the area being irrigated

v  On farm water storage capacity

v  Availability of labour/financial resources

 

 

Irrigation and Water Resource, U.P., it is focused toward the development and construction of dams, canals and wells. Department executed it objective and facilitated the state’s citizens’ with the sufficient facility of irrigation and in meanwhile department also executed flood prevention works and always strives to avoid horrors of flooding.

 

1	Total Geographic Area of the state		240.93 lac hectares
2	Total cultivable Command Area		187.71 lac hectares
3	(a) Area sown for the first time		165.93 lac hectares
	(b) Area sown more than one time		90.22  lac hectares
	(c) Area sown entirely		256.15 lac hectares
4	Maximum Actual Cultivation (Year 2013 &14)		75.65 lac hectares
5	Irrigation capacity created by canals and tube wells in the state		125.45 lac hectares
6	Total number of drains in state		6450 Adada
7	Total length of drains in the state		42625.91 km
8	Length of total canals in the state		74248.43 km
	U.P	73051.85 km	Main Canal	5310.82 km
	Other States	1196.58 km	Branch Canal	7380.69 km
	Total -	74248.43 km	Distributary	24625.74 km
			Alpika	36931.18 km
9	Number of reservoirs in the state		71(except 02 reservoirs irrigation is carried out in the remaining 69)
10	(a) Length of dams in the state for protection from flood		3813.967 km
	(b) Areas benefited from Point (a)		16.12 lac hectares

 

v    No. of working national tube wells in the state-33,375

v  From total 33,375 working national tube wells, 25205 national tube wells have a capacity of 1.5 cusec and remaining 8170 national tube wells have a capacity of 1.0 cusec. A total irrigation of 29.29 lac hectares is obtained from working national tube wells in the state.

v  From total 249 small branched canals, irrigation capacity of 1.77 lac hectares is obtained.

v  Total 28 large and medium pump canals are functional. The main work of large and medium canals is carried out by Mechanical Organization while the work of recording the irrigation is carried out by Civil Organization.

 

 

Milestones of Department

Source: Irrigation and Water resource Department, U.P. : “http://www.idup.gov.in/”