Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Understanding Irrigation Systems And Wheel Line Irrigation

By Barbara Clark


Companies and homes need to prioritize the understanding and knowledge for the systems they are about to use. Irrigation systems have to be used to ensure water control on the sprays that will ultimately descend water to crops. Land maintenance and crop growth are going to be helped through the sprinklers and pipes they installed. One system farmers can apply is wheel line irrigation.

This said system is beneficial as it has simple instructions for operation and maintenance. This is usually integrated to small agricultural lands that measures up to fifteen acres. However, it only sprinkles water for smaller crops due to its height that cannot do the same for taller crops like corns.

Water is spread just like rain when overhead irrigation is applied. The orifice that is in the sprinklers will discharge the water in volumes, control patterns for distribution, and droplet sizes in diameter. For discharge volume, this is its type of irrigation main function. Technicians will only need to work less on maintaining the device in comparison to others. However, the disadvantage is that it can damage almost ripe fruits.

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 or trickle irrigation has a lower rate of sprinkling water over the crops and down the soil. That rate only drips two to twenty liters of water in an hour. However, it will target the roots of crops to ensure that it will get the proper amounts. Moreover, it prevents water loss due to evaporation from seeping into crop roots.

SDI or subsurface drip irrigation has an objective as well as application that are the same as drip irrigation. Its difference lies on the emitters along the pipes and are installed underground. This way, the root zones will be immediately targeted for water absorption. This has an advantage of allowing field works such as plowing at the same time as irrigation. In addition, labor will be lessened in regards to cultivation of dry soils.

One oldest system is flood irrigation. Just as its name, it floods the crops and will flow within the pathways that are built around the farm. When used with furrow irrigation, it helps the flow of water into the narrow path channels. Farmers and technicians are advised to build the systems on flat grounds for equal leveling.

They say that irrigation can be defined simply through its efficiency. This word is understood to be one wherein a certain action is being used to result to material advantage. One such efficiency is irrigation efficiency. This will pay attention to the seasonal conditions or water usage in the farm. It pertains as well to the water percentage that will benefit the land it flows to.

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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