ABSTRACT

This chapter presents user-friendly software for design of drip irrigation system, with the following objectives: to compute crop water requirement of different crops using software which can be irrigated by drip irrigation system and to develop a user-friendly software for design of drip irrigation system. The software was developed to design of drip irrigation system, with taking onto calculation of crop water requirement, friction head loss main line and operating pressure of system, which are very important for drip irrigation system. Drip irrigation is one of the latest methods of irrigation, which is becoming increasingly popular in areas having water scarcity and moderate salt problems. In drip irrigation, water is directly applied to the root zone of plant and it permits the irrigator to apply the volume of water closely matching the consumptive use of plant. Drip irrigation is the modern irrigation system, which is associated with very costly equipments.