A novel drip irrigation system

1. A Novel Drip Irrigation System
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What is ‘A Novel Drip
Irrigation System’?
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What is the purpose to adopt
this system?
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Is it applicable to the current
Indian agriculture scenario?
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What are the advantages?

2. Current Irrigation
Scenario In India
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In India most of the irrigation
depends upon ‘Rain’.
Rain is the main source of
Irrigation in India, even in this
current era of Advanced
Technologies.
Farmers do not have sufficient
facilities for the Irrigation.
Some remote rural areas in the
country are totally depended on
the rain.
They don’t have the irrigation
equipment to irrigate their farm.
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3. Current Irrigation
Scenario In India
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Those who can afford such
irrigation techniques, are not
provided sufficient ‘Electrical
Power’ to run those Irrigation
equipment.
Thus the one who can afford to set
up the ‘costly’ irrigation system
once at a time, but can’t afford to
‘Run those irrigation equipment’.
So the farmers are made to use
‘Diesel’ as a fuel to run the Pumps,
Motors and other Mechanical
devices.
Nowadays prices of crude oil is
going higher and higher.
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4. Current Irrigation
Scenario In India
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Now the govt. has allowed the
Petroleum companies to hike the
‘diesel price’ Rs. 0.5/month.
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And as the prices of oil in the global
market rises, even for the very short
period of time, oil companies
immediately increase the price of
‘Petrol’ and ‘Diesel’.
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Secondly the discrimination of
Indian rupee value against dollar
also causes the hike in the diesel
prices.
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The chart of hike in diesel prices in
Delhi from 2002 to 2013 is shown.
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5. Raised Diesel prices in Delhi from June 2002 to July 2013

6. What is required to be done to overcome the difficulties of Irrigation in
India?
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The methods of Irrigation must be
implemented with the technology
advancements to make them more
effective, cheaper and within the
range of each and every farmer.
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Methods of irrigation should be
simple to use but must be effective
enough that the purpose of Irrigation
of the farm can be executed.
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New techniques of irrigation should
not be running on the major ‘Power
Sources’ like Oil and Natural Gas, due
to their high prices.
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7. Irrigation
Methods used in
India
A farmer setting up the
Pump and Generator for the
Irrigation
Ancient Indian
method of
Irrigation
called as
‘Rahat’

8. What is required to be done to overcome the
difficulties of Irrigation in India?
 The Irrigation technique should be suitable to the all fields of the
entire region of the nation.
 It should be within the reach of the common farmer.
 The set up cost, running cost and maintenance cost should be as
low as possible.
 It should be easy to operate and handle.
 It should be designed such that to optimize the use of WATER.
 The water should not be wasted in doing Irrigation.

9. So what is the Solution that matches all those
characteristics mentioned on previous slide?
Does there any solution exist to incorporate all
these mentioned characteristics?
The answer is YES.
A Novel Drip Irrigation System

10. A Novel Drip Irrigation System

11. Working:
A Novel Drip
Irrigation System
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In this ‘Novel Drip
Irrigation System’, simple
plastic bottles are used.
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Each bottle is cut from its
bottom and specially
designed ‘T –Section’ is
attached at its end.
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In the cap of the bottle, a
small hole is drilled to
feed water to the plants
and crop.
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12. Working:
A Novel Drip
Irrigation System
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When bottle is cut at its
bottom, small plastic ball
is inserted in the bottle.
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Here this small ball acts as
a water regulating valve
which does not allow
bottle to get over filled.
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When water starts flowing
through pipes and enters
into bottle, but initially
plastic ball remains at the
cap side of the bottle (i.e.
at the bottom from its
held position).
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13. Working:
A Novel Drip
Irrigation System
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As the level of water in the
bottle rises, ball also
comes up with water and
when ball reaches to top
of the bottle it gets stuck
in that ‘Spherical Shaped’
element.
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Now bottle is completely
filled with water and ball
restricts further water
entering into the bottle.
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The bottle is then held
reversely facing its cape to
the bottom of the field
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14. Working:
A Novel Drip
Irrigation System
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Using this ‘T Section’ at the
opposite end, a number of
other bottles made in the
same manner can be
connected via rubber pipes.
Cost to prepare a single
bottle is around 9 rupees, but
it can surely be reduced if we
go for mass production.
Hence the entire Irrigation
system can be created
according to desired manner
and one can reach to each
and every corner of the field
as only rubber tube/pipes
are used.
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15. Comparison:
A Novel Drip Irrigation
Piped Water Drip Irrigation
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It’s costly, can’t be afforded by
everyone.
It has a rigid structure made of metal
pipes that can’t be moved easily.
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It’s very cheap, everyone can afford it.
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For each seasonal crop, appropriate
corrections are needed which is
difficult
High maintenance cost of metal pipes.
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It has a flexible structure made of
rubber pipes which can be moved
easily.
Different crop Irrigation can be easily
accommodated with different
seasonal crops.
Very low maintenance cost.
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16. Advantages:
A Novel Drop
Irrigation System
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A Novel Drip Irrigation is
simple to use.
It has very low set up and
maintenance cost.
Running cost is almost zero.
It’s suitable for every region
farms and crops across the
nation.
The changes in the position
of Drop can be easily
accommodated according to
the requirement.
It is efficient.
Water consumption is very
low.
No mechanical devices are
required (except pumps for
special purpose to feed
water)

17. Thank You.