Wolaita Sodo University; Department of Horticulture

Irrigation and Drainage CROPWAT Project Work for 1st Year Students
General Instructions:
Each group will have their own crop type and its characteristics. Please read each
parameter carefully that are described below the following tables.
Each group will have common values/data about soil and climate.
Each group will be calculate ETo, Crop Water Requirement and Irrigation Schedule
Make sure that you have your own folder on the desktop represented by groups crop
name.
Cheating or talking across other groups rather than within your team members will be
disqualified your result.
Maximum given time to show the result will be 1:40 min.
Table 5 Approximate duration of growth stages for various crops in days (FAO, 1984)

Bean/green
Cabbage
Carrot
Cucumber
Eggplant
Lettuce
Maize, sweet
Melon
Onion/green
Onion/dry
Pepper
Potato
Radish

Total

Initial stage

Crop
Development
stage

Mid
stage

75
90
120
140
100
150
105
130
130
140
75
140
80
110
120
160
70
95
150
210
100
120
210
105
145
35
40

15
20
20
25
20
25
20
25
30
30
20
35
20
20
25
30
25
25
15
20
20
25
30
25
30
5
10

25
30
25
30
30
35
30
35
40
40
30
50
25
30
35
45
30
40
25
35
30
35
40
30
35
10
10

25
30
60
65
30
70
40
50
40
45
15
45
25
50
40
65
10
20
70
110
35
40
110
30
50
15
15

season

Late
seaso
n
stage
10
10
15
20
20
20
15
20
20
25
10
10
10
10
20
20
5
10
40
45
15
20
30
20
30
5
5

Soybean

135
150

20
20

30
30

60
70

25
30

Table 6 Rooting depth of mature irrigated crops grown in a deep permeable well- drained soil
(FAO, 1984).
Shallow rooted 0-0.6m
Broccoli (0.3-0.6)
Brussels sprouts (0.3-0.6
Cabbage (0.4-0.5)
Cauliflower (0.3-0.6)
Celery (0.3-0.5)
Lettuce (0.3-0.5)
Onions (0.3-0.5)
Pineapple (0.3-0.6)
Potatoes (0.4-0.6)
Raddish (0.3-0.6)
Spinach (0.3-0.5)
Strawberries (0.2-0.3)

Moderately deep rooted 0.5-1.2m

Bananas (0.5-0.9)
Barley (1.0-1.5)
Beans (0.5-0.7)
Beets, table (0.6-1.0)
Cantaloupes (0.9-1.5)
Carrots (0.5-0.1)
Citrus (1.2-1.5)
Clover (0.6-0.9)
Cucumber (0.7-1.2)
Eggplant (0.7-1.2)
Grain, small (0.9-1.5)
Grass, pasture (0.5-1.5)
Groundnuts (0.5-1.0)
Palm trees (0.7-1.1)
Peas (0.6-1.0)
Peppers (0.5-1.0)
Soybeans (0.6-1.3)
Squash (0.5-1.0)
Sugar beets (0.7-1.2)
Tobacco (0.5-1.0)
Turnips (0.7-1.1)

Deep rooted 1.0-2.0m

Alfalfa (1.0-2.0)
Almonds (>1.5)
Asparagus (>1.5)
Barley, winter (1.0-1.5)
Castor beans (>1.5)
Cotton (1.0-1.7)
Dates (1.5-2.5)
Flax (1.0-1.5)
Fruit trees (1.0-2.0)
Grains, winter (1.5-2.0)
Grapes (1.0-2.0)
Maize (1.0-1.7)
Olives (1.2-1.7)
Pumpkins (>1.5)
Sorghum(1.0-2.0)
Squash, winter (>1.5)
Sugarcane (1.2-2.0)
Sunflower(0.8-1.5)
Sweet potato, Yams (1.0-1.5)
Tomatoes (0.7-1.5)
Walnuts (>1.5)
Watermelons (1.0-1.5)
Wheat (1.0-1.5)
Table 7 Allowable root zone water depletion between irrigations for near maximum yield (FAO,
1984)
Allowable available water Root zone depth normally
Beans, dry
Deciduous fruit
Potatoes
Sugar beet
Soybean
Vegetable crops

depletion %
50-70
50-70
25-50
30-60
50-60
25-50

Data taken from stegman, musick and stewart (1980)

irrigated in deep soils (cm)

60-90
120-180
60-90
90-120
60-90
60-120

Table 9 Crop coefficients (Kc) (FAO, 1986)

Crop Development stages
Initial
Crop

Midseason

Late

At

Total

season

harvest

growing

Crop
development

period
Banana
Tropical
Subtropical
Bean
Green

0.4-0.5

0.7-0.85

1.0-1.1

0.9-1.0

0.75-

0.7-08

0.5.-0.65

0.8-0.9

1.0-1.2

1.0-1.15

0.85
1.0-1.15

0.85-0.95

0.65-0.75

0.95-1.05

0.9-0.95

0.85-

0.85-0.9
0.7-0.8
0.7-0.8
0.55-0.75

0.3-0.4

Dry
Cabbage
Grape

0.3-0.4
0.4-0.5
0.35-0.55

0.7-0.8
0.7-0.8
0.6-0.8

1.05-1.2
0.95-1.1
0.7-0.9

0.65-0.75
0.9-1.0
0.6-0.8

0.95
0.25-03
0.8-0.95
0.55-0.7

Maize Sweet
Grain
Onion
Dry

0.3-0.5
0.3-05

0.7-0.9
0.7-0.85

1.05-1.2
1.05-1.2

1.0-1.15
0.8-0.95

0.95-1.1
0.55-0.6

0.8-0.95
0.75-0.9

0.4-0.6

0.7-0.8

0.95-1.1

0.85-0.9

0.75-

0.8-0.9

Green

0.4-0.6

0.6-0.75

0.95-1.05

0.95-1.05

0.85
0.95-

0.65-0.8
0.8-0.95
0.7-0.8
0.75-0.9
0.75-0.9
0.8-0.9
0.85-0.95
0.75-0.9
0.75-0.85

Pea, fresh
Pepper, fresh
Potato
Soybean
Sugar beet
Tobacco

0.4-0.5
0.3-0.4
0.4-0.5
0.3-0.4
0.4-0.5
0.3-0.4

0.7-0.85
0.6-0.75
0.7-0.8
0.7-0.8
0.75-0.85
0.7-0.8

1.05-1.2
0.95-1.1
1.05-1.2
1.0-1.15
1.05-1.2
1.0-1.2

1.0-1.15
0.85-1.0
0.85-0.95
0.7-0.8
0.9-1.0
0.9-1.0

1.05
0.95-1.1
0.8-0.9
0.7-0.75
0.4-0.5
0.6-0.7
0.75-

Tomato
Watermelon

0.4-0.5
0.4-0.5

0.7-0.8
0.7-0.8

1.05-1.25
0.95-1.05

0.8-0.95
0.8-0.9

0.85
0.6-0.65
0.650.75

Citrus
Clean weeding
No weed control

0.65-0.75
0.85-0.9

Olive

0.4-0.6