Irrigation Coursefor Agrostudies student

Tel-Hai spring-summer 2014

Rotem Sadertsade@gmail.com

Schedule

Rwandans Filipinos

04.05.2014 13:00 06.04.2014 13:00 Lesson 1

08.06.2014 09:30 08.06.2014 13:00 Lesson 2

15.06.2014 09:30 15.06.2014 13:00 Lesson 3

22.06.2014 09:30 22.06.2014 13:00 Lesson 4

29.06.2014 09:30 29.06.2014 13:00 Lesson 5

13.07.2014 09:30 13.07.2014 13:00 Lesson 6

27.07.2014 20.07.2014 Study tour

Introduction

• Irrigation in Ancient Mesopotamia• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RP2KfewiJA

• System of Rice Intensification (SRI)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGeanXxdE1g

• Pivot irrigation• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24LJSJqpYuY

• WHY DO WE NEED IRRIGATION

Reason for Irrigation

We need irrigation to supply water requirement of the plants.Good irrigation practice will bring:•Efficiency of water, land, labor•Increase Crops yield quantity and quality (arsenic in rice)•Control of where when and what we grow

•Papers in the Arava•Apples in the Golan

•Control roots, crops yields•Control Soil erosion (Hula valley example Hula Lake)•Control environmental pollution from agriculture

The basis of irrigation

• Soil• Plant• Evapotranspiration• Plant requirements

Topics for the irrigation course

• Soil properties and water in soil

• Plants physiology

• crops water requirements

• Evapotranspiration

• Irrigation systems

Irrigation guides

• Introduction to irrigation• http://www.fao.org/docrep/r4082e/r4082e00.htm

• Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements - FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56• http://www.fao.org/docrep/x0490e/x0490e00.htm

• NEH 652 - Irrigation Guide• http://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/viewerFS.aspx?hid=21431