Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Wheel Line Irrigation And Other Irrigation Systems

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.

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.

Overhead irrigation spreads water over crops as if it is rain water. It has an orifice within the sprinklers which can control distribution pattern, diameter size on droplets, and discharge volume. The last one is the main function of the sprinklers actually of this irrigation type. Its technicians do labor maintenance much less than others. The downside is the possibility of damaging fruits that near its harvest season.

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.

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.

Experts have simplified the definition of irrigation through three efficiencies. Everyone knows that efficiency is the result of an exerted action for the good of the person or group. One of those efficiencies is IE, irrigation efficiency. This pays attention to conditions of the seasons or usage of water. This also pertains to percentage of water that benefits the soil.

There is a meter called application efficiency. This tests the performance of each irrigation system over the agricultural crops. This meter pertains to water percentage that is able to get delivered to the crops. Another meter, distribution uniformity, will be used along with AE to determine the even distribution of crops to certain sections.




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