ABSTRACT

Agricultural practices like soil management, nutrient management, irrigation management, disease and pest management, etc., all are helpful in sustainable water availability to the plants. Water is an important input for sustainable production of agricultural produce. Water is an important constituent of food production in plants and most of these food materials are converted into end products i.e. yield. The availability of fresh water also decreases day by day and efficiency of irrigation is also low. Only 65 per cent of irrigation water is utilized by the plants. Due to lack of surplus fresh water for irrigation as well as climatic changes it is need to increase efficiency of irrigation water to the plant by using advanced method of irrigation technique to cope up unavailability of irrigation water and climatic changes. Another way for maximum utilization of water in plant is partial root drying. It is most applicable in dry areas. Under this condition half part of the root zone is irrigated and left half part. Water percolated from irrigated part to other parts of the root zone and make available to the plants.