Watering through furrow
Type: Approaches
Creation: 2009-01-20 00:00 Updated: 2025-08-24 10:41
Compilers: Unknown User
Reviewers: Fabian Ottiger, Rima Mekdaschi Studer
Country/ region/ locations where the Approach has been applied
- Country: Kazakhstan
- Region/ State/ Province: Southern-Kazakhstan
Description of the SLM Approach
Short description of the Approach
Watering through furrow
Detailed description of the Approach
Aims / objectives: To the developing of irrigated agriculture in a valley of the river Syr-Darya is interfered the deficiency of water resources. The problem of stabilization of an agricultural production is solved due to using of the SWC approach 'watering through furrow'.
Methods: The approach provides a necessary level of accumulation of a moisture into the soils for reception of guaranteed crops. Water supply is carried out by means of watering through furrow on a farmlands from conditions of saturation of 1.5 meter layer up to a field moisture capacity. At absence of financing for reconstruction of irrigating system the water availability of the irrigated soils raises due to optimization of the watering elements. For this purpose on an irrigated field are laying furrows long 150-400 m., the distances between furrow can change from 0.7 up to 0.9 meter. Width of a furrow on top 35-40 sm., and depth from 12 up to 17 sm., depending on slope of surfaces of the ground. Experience shows that the effect of uniformity of humidifying of ground is reached at the consumption of water of 0.9 liter/sec (quantity of absorbing water in the end of furrow to absorbed volume in head). Depending on agromeliorative properties of soil, can vary from 1.1 up to 0.7 liter/sec. In view of control of a water stream at watering through furrow, make a reinforcing of headstalls of irrigating furrows by cellophane napkins (50*50sm), irrigation tubes. Watering through furrow allows to reduce the losses of water to a filtration in 2 times, on dump and evaporation in 1.5 times. Due to reduction of these losses it is possible to improve water-availability of other irrigated masses on 20-30%. The given approach allows to save water resources to apply widely technique, provides high germination and survival of cultivated cultures, and save a manpower. The soil-cultivating technique passes on dry furrow and provides high quality of interrow cultivating of soils. The waterier easily moves on a field (dry furrows) and carries out duly redistribution of water in furrows, that improves quality of watering, operating conditions of a drainage, raises uniformity of humidifying soils, reduces expanses of water for reception of unit of agricultural production.
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