3. Agricultural intervention
- Effective crop planning in the command area
- Capacity building of the farmers
- Promotion of suitable cropping
system/pattern
- promotion of quality seed/planting material
- promotion of low cost and sustainable
methodology
4. Crop
Growing
Period
( No. of days )
Total Water Requirement
Daily Water
Requirement
in cm in inches in cm
in
inches
Jowar 114 64.25 25.70 0.575 0.23
Maize 100 44.50 17.80 0.450 0.18
Rice 93 104.50 41.80 1.075 0.43
Wheat 88 37.00 14.80 0.425 0.17
Groundnut 124 65.25 26.10 0.525 0.21
Linseed 88 31.71 12.68 0.350 0.14
Cotton 202 105.50 42.20 0.525 0.21
Sugarcane 365 237.50 95.00 0.650 0.26
Tobacco 132 98.00 39.20 0.750 0.30
Onion 120 75.00 30.00 0.625 0.25
Potato 88 30.00 12.00 0.750 0.30
Pea 88 30.00 12.00 0.350 0.14
Mustard 88 25.20 10.08 0.300 0.12
Barley 88 25.20 10.08 0.400 0.16
Oat 88 36.00 14.40 0.400 0.16
Ragi 127 74.50 29.80 0.575 0.23
Water requirement of some common crops
5. Crop
Growing
Period
Total Water Requirement
( No. of days ) In cm In Mt
In’000 litres per Acre
(4000 Sq mt)
Jowar 114 64.25 0.643 2570
Maize 100 44.5 0.445 1780
Rice 93 104.5 1.045 4180
Wheat 88 37 0.37 1480
Groundnut 124 65.25 0.653 2610
Linseed 88 31.71 0.317 1268.4
Cotton 202 105.5 1.055 4220
Sugarcane 365 237.5 2.375 9500
Tobacco 132 98 0.98 3920
Onion 120 75 0.75 3000
Potato 88 30 0.3 1200
Pea 88 30 0.3 1200
Mustard 88 25.2 0.252 1008
Barley 88 25.2 0.252 1008
Oat 88 36 0.36 1440
Ragi 127 74.5 0.745 2980
WATER REQUIREMENT PER ACRE
6. Name of the Crop Critical Stages
Cereals
Rice/Paddy
Tillering, Panicle initiation, Heading
and Flowering
Wheat
Crown root initiation, Tillering to
booting
Sorghum
Booting, Blooming and Milky Dough
Stage
Maize Silking and Tasseling to Dough stage
Pearl millet Heading and Flowering
Finger millet Primordial Initiation and Flowering
Pulses
Chickpea Late vegetative phage
Black gram Flowering and pod setting
Green gram Flowering and pod setting
Beans Flowering and pod setting
Critical Stages for Irrigation in Different Crops
7. Name of the Crop Critical Stages
Oil Seeds
Ground nut
Flowering, Peg Formation and Pod
Development
Sesame Blooming to Maturity
Sunflower Pre-flowering to Post-flowering
Vegetables
Onion Bulb Formation and Pre-maturity
Tomato Flowering and Fruit Setting
Chillies Flowering and Fruit Setting
Cabbage Head Formation
Potato Tuber Initiation to Maturity
Carrot Root Enlargement
Others
Cotton Flowering and Boll Formation
Citrus
Flowering, Fruit Setting and Fruit
Enlargement
Mango Pre-flowering and Fruit Setting
8. Huge number of crops
Cereals- Rice, wheat,maize, millets etc
Pulses- Green gram, black gram,arhar, pegion
pea etc.
Oil seeds- Groundnut, mustard, sunflower etc.
Fibre crop= cotton
Fruits- Mango, Citrus, papaya,cashew,
Vegetables- many
9. Grown in numerous pattern and
system
Cropping pattern
A cropping pattern is a sequence of crops grown in
one calendar year.
Cropping system
A cropping system is a way in which various crops
are grown in the same field. The cropping pattern
used on a farm and its interactions with farm
resources, other farm enterprises, and available
technology which determine their makeup.
Mono-cropping
Single crop in a land in a year.
Double cropping
Taking 2nd crop after the first
10. Intercropping-Crops are sown in different rows
without affecting the population of main crop
when sown as sole crop.
Rice+greengram/blackgram (2:1 or 3:1)
Rice + Pigeon pea (3:1 or 4:1)
Castor + Tubercrop (1:1)
Fingermillet + Pigeon pea (2:1 or 3:1)
Mixed cropping-Either sown in rows or mixed
without considering the population of either.
Maize + Arhar (2:1)
Relay cropping- Growing succeeding crop
in the standing or maturing crop.
Ex- gram in maturing rice crop.
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14. Rabi-Paddy cultivation in DBI
area
Should not to be promoted
But could not be avoided.
The methodology can changes
SRI can be a option that reduces the water
requirement as well as other inputs and
maximizing the produce
15. SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION
Younger
seedlings
(8-12 days
old)
Avoid trauma
to roots by
quick and
shallow
planting
Efficient water
management
(good irrigation
and drainage)
Mechanical
weeding
(4 times from
10 DAT)
Use of
organics
Reduced
population
16 plants
m-2 , single
plant hill-1
BASIC
PRINCIPLES
16. APPLICATION OF SRI PRINCIPLES IN OTHER CROPS (SCI)
Wheat (SWI) Finger millets Kidney bean(Rajma)
Sugarcane (SSI) Rapseed Soyabean
17. Other small interventions
Polyhouse-for nursery raising
Mulching- for reducing evaporation loss
Crop rotation- For reducing disease pest attack
and maintaining soil health
