Assignment – 2

WATER REQUIREMENT OF CROPS

1. Explain (1) Crop ratio (2) Crop period (3) Base period (4) Duty (5)
Delta (6) Intensity of Irrigation
2. What do you understand by Gross commanded area and
Culturable command area?
3. Explain kor watering, kor period & kor depth.
4. Explain the Relationship between Duty and Delta.
5. Explain Time factor, Outlet factor & Capacity factor.
6. Describe the factors affecting Duty of water.
7. Write a short note on : (a) Methods of improving Duty of water
(b) Irrigation Efficiencies
(c) Assessment of Irrigation water
8. Explain the terms : CIR, NIR, FIR & GIR
9. Calculate the discharge of water course having CCA = 1400
hectare for following data :
Crop type Intensity of Irrigation Kor period Kor depth
A 45% 30 days 10 cm
B 35% 25 ays 12 m

10. The base period, Intensity of Irrigation and Duty of various

crops under a canal system are given in table below. Determine
the reservoir capacity if the canal losses are 20% and reservoir
losses are 12%. Culturable commanded area is 20,000 hectares.
Crop Base period Duty of water at Intensity of
(days) the field irrigation (%)
(hectare/cumec)
Wheat 120 1800 20
Sugarcane 360 1700 20
Cotton 180 1400 10
Rice 120 800 15
Vegetables 120 700 15

11. Determine the water distribution efficiency in a 180m long

border strip when the soil sampling after Irrigation at 30m interval
along the water run showed the effective depths of water
penetration (in cm) as 120, 120, 112, 108, 107 and 105.
12. Find the delta for a crop if the duty for a base period of 120
days is 2000 hectare/cumec. If total depth of water is to be
supplied in 6 waterings, find depth of water in each watering.
13. The culturable command area of a water course is 1500
hecatre. Intensities of irrigation of sugarcane and wheat crops is
25% and 50% respectively. The duties for the crops at the head
of the water course are 700 hectare/cumec and 1750
hectares/cumec respectively. Find the discharge required at
head of water course.
14. The GCA of an irrigation project is 1 lac hectares. The CCA is
75% of GCA. The intensities of irrigation for Kharif & Rabi crops are
50% ad 55% respectively. If the duties for Kharif & Rabi crops are
1200 hectare/cumec and 1400 hectare/cumec respectively,
determine the discharge at the head of canal considering 25%
provision for transmission loss, overlapping allowances,
evaporation etc.
15. A field channel has a culturable cummanded area of 2000
hectares. The intensity of irrigation for Crop A is 30% and for Crop
B is 50%. For Crop A kor period is 18 days and kor depth is 12 cm.
For Crop B kor period is 15 days and kor depth is 15 cm. Calculate
the discharge of the field channel required.
16. For a canal the required discharge are as follows.
For kharif crop 6.4 cumec,
For Rabi crop 4.0 cumec,
For Summer crop 2.5 cumec,
For 8 monthly crop 3.0 cumec,
For yearly crop 2.8 cumec,
If the peak demand is 20 % more than the average demand
and time factor is 0.8, then for what discharge the canal must be
designed? Losses are not to be considered.