CropWaterRequirement-Introduction

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Crop water requirement will be estimated using FAO 56 method. Inputs required for estimating the crop water requirement is mentioned in Table 8.1. Steps for estimating the crop water requirement given in Table 8.2.

Source for this module:

  1. Institution of Agricultural Technologists (IATA), 2006, Technical Manual for Integrated Watershed Development, (Sponsored by Watershed Development Department, Government of Karnataka), Institution of Agricultural Technologists, Queen’s Road, Bengaluru-560 052.
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  4. Allen, R.G., Pereira, L.S., Raes, D. &Smith, M., Crop evapo-transpiration - guidelines for computing crop water requirements – FAO irrigation & drainage paper 56. FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1998.