Sunday, February 28, 2010

Water Management Including Micro Irrigation

Water Management Including Micro Irrigation
1. Water Resources & Irrigation Development in India and M.S
2. Sources and Functions of Water
3. Classification of Soil Water or Kinds of Soil Water
4. Absorption and Movement of Water in Soil
5. Forces Causing Water Movement and Retention of Water in Soil
6. Soil Moisture Constant
7. Available and Unavailable Soil Water
8. Absorption of Moisture by Crops
9. Factors Affecting Absorption of Water
10. Methods of Soil Moisture Estimation Methods : Laboratory & Field
11. Evaporation, Transpiration, Evapo-transpiration and factors influencing ET
12. Water Requirement and Irrigation Requirement
13. Quantity of Irrigation Water or How Much to Irrigation
14. Devices Used for Measuring Irrigation Water
15. Criteria for Scheduling Irrigation or Approaches for Irrigation Scheduling
16. Simple Technique for Scheduling Irrigation
17. Methods of Irrigation- Surface, Surge, Subsurface, Sprinkler, Raingun Sprinkler
18. Micro Irrigation
19. Irrigation
20. Sprinkler Irrigation
21. Systems of Sprinkle Irrigation
22. Components of Sprinkler Irrigation System
23. Irrigation Efficiency
24. Water Conyenance Efficiency and Water Use Efficiency
25. Frequency of Irrigation
26. Water Quality Parameters
27. Factors Affecting Frequency of Irrigation
28. Common Problems that Result From Using Poor Quality Irrigation Water
29. Quality of Water from Different Sources
30. Definition of Drainage, Causes of Water Logging Effects of Bad Drainage
31. Type of Drainage
32. Agro Technique under ill Drained Soils, Reclamation of Damaged Soils
33. Study of Water Table
34. Type of Land Requiring Drainage
35. Material used Drip System Design
36. Definitions and Terms used in Irrigation

Friday, February 19, 2010

What is Agriinfo.in?

What is Agriinfo.in?
Agriinfo.in is the website developed by well educated agri professionals having very deep knowledge and good background of agriculture. These professionals are having the educational qualifications from Diploma in Agriculture to Ph. D in Agriculture.Agriculture science is connected to the various sciences as botany, dairy science, social science, economics, pathology, engineering, food science, soil science & chemistry. This are also called as the branches of agriculture. And we are having the team specialist for each and every branch. Our Vision:To create the My Agriculture Information Bank this will provide all type of agriculture information at anytime at anyplace and at free of cost.Our Mission:To provide all information related to agriculture at one spot i.e. My Agriculture Information bank.Our Objectives: Encourage peoples to read about agriculture science by provide free online quality agriculture information. To create the one spot agriculture information center. Educate: Educate the peoples related to the theory & practical of agriculture by creating one spot information center for agriculture. Develop: Develop the condition of Agriculture in India with the help of our educated peoples. Empower: Ask to peoples to empower farmers to go for new techniques. To provide free information to the agriculture professionals at anywhere and at anytime whenever they required. Provide readymade study materials to the agriculture students, etc…By,Team Agriinfohttp://www.agriinfo.in/

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

What is Sustainable Agriculture?

In the words of one Iowa farmer, sustainable agriculture is a journey rather than a destination. Sustainable agriculture is about honestly identifying and trying to solve the problems in our current agricultural system. At least for now, no one has developed a fully sustainable agriculture, and for the foreseeable future there will always be room for improvement. The sustainable agriculture movement identifies three areas of concern that must be addressed by our agricultural system. These three areas are economics, environment, and social structure. In other words, a sustainable agriculture must provide a fair and reasonably secure living for farm families; it should benefit rather than harm the natural environment and must at least maintain basic natural resources such as healthy soil, clean water, and clean air; and it should support viable rural communities and fair treatment of all involved in the food system, from farm workers to consumers. There are many paths to sustainability. Some of the approaches Iowa farmers are working with include better use of pasture for raising livestock, reducing or eliminating the use of synthetic

Agronomy Vs Agriculture

Agronomy is limited to crop and soil science while agriculture is a more comprehensive field and covers all farming related activities. Agriculture covers crop science, soil science, animal husbandry, horticulture, floraculture, silviculture, aquaculture, sericulture and other fields as well as related activities like design and maintenance equipment used for agriculture. One of the basic differences is that agronomy is related to plants and is usually focussed on food and cash crops like rice, wheat, corn, tobacco and methods to increase the crop output per acre. Agriculture also includes other farming related activities related to animals like rearing of cattle, goat, sheep, fish, chicken , fish and prawns. The cultivation of fruits and vegetables as well as different varieties of flowers is also not included in agronomy.

What Is Horticulture?

The science and art of growing fruit, flowers, ornamental plants, and vegetables in small gardens.HORTICULTURE (Lat. hortus, a garden), the art and science of the cultivation of garden plants, whether for utilitarian or for decorative purposes. The subject naturally divides itself into two sections, which we here propose to treat separately, commencing with the science, and passing on to the practice of the cultivation of flowers, fruits and vegetables as applicable to the home garden. The point of view taken is necessarily, as a rule, that of a British gardener. Part I.-Principles Or Science Of Horticulture Horticulture, apart from the mechanical details connected with the maintenance of a garden and its appurtenances, may be considered as the application of the principles of plant physiology to the cultivation of plants from all parts of the globe, and from various altitudes, soils and situations. The lessons derived from the abstract principles enunciated by the physiologist, the chemist and the physicist require, however, to be modified to suit the special circumstances of plants under cultivation. The necessity for this modification arises from the fact that such plants are subjected to conditions more or less unnatural to them, and that they are grown for special purposes which are at variance, in degree at any rate, with their natural requirements. The life of the plant (see Plants) makes itself manifest in the processes of growth, development and reproduction. By growth is here meant mere increase in bulk, and by development the series of gradual modifications by which a plant, originally simple in its structure and conformation, becomes eventually complicated, and endowed with distinct parts or organs. The reproduction of the higher plants takes place either asexually by the formation of buds or organs answering thereto, or sexually by the production of an embryo plant within the seed. The conditions requisite for the growth, development and reproduction of plants are, in general terms, exposure, at the proper time, to suitable amounts of light, heat and moisture, and a due supply of appropriate food. The various amounts of these needed in different cases have to be adjusted by the gardener, according to the nature of the plant, its " habit" or general mode of growth in its native country, and the influence to which it is there subjected, as also in accordance with the purposes for which it is to be cultivated, &c. It is but rarely that direct information on all these points can be obtained; but inference from previous experience, especially with regard to allied forms, will go far to supply such deficiencies. Moreover, it must be remembered that the conditions most favourable to plants are not always those to which they are subjected in nature, for, owing to the competition of other forms in the struggle for existence, liability to injury from insects, and other adverse circumstances, plants may actually be excluded from the localities best suited for their development. The gardener therefore may, and does, by modifying, improve upon the conditions under which a plant naturally exists. Thus it frequently happens that in our gardens flowers have a beauty and a fragrance, and fruits a size and savour denied to them in their native haunts. It behooves the judicious gardener, then, not to be too slavish in his attempts to imitate natural conditions, and to bear in mind that such attempts sometimes end in failure. The most successful gardening is that which turns to the best account the plastic organization of the plant, and enables it to develop and multiply as perfectly as possible. Experience, coupled with observation and reflection, as well as the more indirect teachings of tradition, are therefore of primary importance to the practical gardener. We propose hereto notice briefly the several parts of a flowering plant, and to point out the rationale of the cultural procedures connected with them (see the references to separate articles at the end of article on Botany).