What are the big six?

Crop:

What crop are you growing?

Climate:

What is the seasonal rainfall, and what is the irrigation requirement to make up the difference to meet the water requirement for your specific crop?

The field:
What shape? What slope?
The soil:

What type of soil and how well does it hold water?

The water source:

What is it (well, reservoir, etc.) and how much water volume do you have access to?

Energy:

What energy source do you have, what is the price, and what restrictions do you have?

 

These outputs are critical to know because:

1. you can determine the right components you need (see Module 2)

2. the outputs make the basis for much of the information that you will need to provide to a hydraulic design engineer to design your irrigation system (see Module 3).

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