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New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers Management Of Water Resource In Agriculture by Dr. U.S. SREE RAMULU
Rapid industrialisation coupled with population explosion has resulted in greater urbanisation. Because of these, the water that was available for agriculture is now being shared by various sectors. This has resulted in a gradual decline in per capita land and water availability. At the same time the need to increase the food production to feed the increasing population is being increasingly felt. Mismanagement of available water has added one more dimension to this problem resulting in development of problem soils, thus causing reduction in the production per unit quantity of water.
Hence it has become absolutely necessary to use the available water resources in such a manner as to get the maximum returns per unit quantity of water. At present no book covers the multifaceted nature of this problem. Hence in this book all aspects like methods of irrigation, measurement of water, quality of waters, water requirements of crops, scheduling of irrigation, water budgeting, irrigation efficiency, drainage, recycling, agronomy, soil science, crop physiological aspects of irrigation system, etc. have been covered. A separate section of constraints and weakness in the current water management practices is also included in this book.
This book will be of great help to the administrators dealing with water management, water technologists, scholars and farmers who are taking steps to maximise the benefits of the available water resources on the scientific basis to get the higher productivity of water.