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Optimal cropping pattern design for a major distributary of Hirakud canal command in India

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Title Optimal cropping pattern design for a major distributary of Hirakud canal command in India
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Creator R. K. Panda · N. Panigrahy · S. Mohanty· P. S. Brahmanand · A. Kumar · P. V. Raju · V. V. Rao
 
Subject Hirakud command area · Optimal crop planning · Surplus–deficit analysis · Optimization · Linear programming
 
Description Journal article
Gravity flow on field to field flooding basis is prevalent in most of the canal command areas in India. Furthermore, the canals
being mostly unlined and at many sections ill maintained, enormous conveyance loss of water occurs causing dwindling
crop production. Hirakud canal command area located in India is no exception to this predicament. Thus, augmentation of
irrigation infrastructures vis-à-vis prudent crop planning is of paramount importance for increasing the overall efficiency of
the canal system. This paper describes development of optimal crop planning in the Hirakud command area by considering
different objectives of planning (scenarios) so that improvement in irrigation efficiency, in terms of water productivity could
be feasible. Among various scenarios, the cropping pattern obtained under Scenario—II, i.e. to utilize the maximum area
for cultivation, under the constraint of limiting water availability for each outlet was found to be feasible for optimal land
and water utilization and generation of requisite employment. However, keeping in view the affinity of the farmers towards
paddy (a heavy duty crop), Scenario—III i.e. to utilize the maximum area for cultivation with the constraints of limited
irrigation water availability, and providing irrigation to heavy duty crops for at least one-third of the culturable command
area of each outlet, can be adopted.
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Date 2021-07-22T03:31:35Z
2021-07-22T03:31:35Z
2018-05-22
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Not Available
23635045, 23635037
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/49278
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG