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Irrigation Muthu An K TAPMI
Irrigation Muthu An K TAPMI
Muthu Subramanian K
TAPMI, Manipal
Problems
Increase in population
Changes in climate – thus affecting rainfall
Limited land availability for agriculture
(saturated at 142 million hectares for more than
a decade)
Need
Need for increased agricultural output
Need for reducing wastage of water
Irrigation requires overall
improvements
Specifically Cities: Rain water harvesting
Agricultural lands: Using techniques like low
cost drip irrigation and sprinklers
Simple techniques to collect water in places
where salt is collected.
Reduce wastage
Reduce water pollution
Other improvements
Using techniques like
SRI (System of Rice Intensification)
Precision Agriculture
Integrated Farming
The Organization
The organization will be an NGO
Employing people from technical and practical
knowledge
Members would include farmers from the
localities
NGO would get its training and inputs from
different government and non-government
organizations
Profits will be put back into the organization
The Plan
Provide technological and consulting services to farmers on
Farming
SRI
Precision farming
Integrated farming
Irrigation
Drip irrigation
Sprinklers
The above consulting services would reduce the wastage and
would increase the output per drop of water. Thus indirectly
increasing the land under irrigation.
The Plan
Funding
Funds would be collected from donations, mainly from corporate CSR
divisions
Government subsidies
Operations
Consulting
Better crop for the season (farmers preferences would also be
considered)
The equipments like GPS, Computers etc. would be shared for a
particular region and nearby regions
More open source technologies (with customizations) would be used.
Farmers would be charged on per crop and land area basis or on
profit sharing basis
The Plan
Operations (continued)
Irrigation
Farmers have a choice of buying the equipment or
leasing
In case of a lease, Farmers would be repaying on
monthly basis.
Farmers would be persuaded to join with near by farmers
for irrigating better and sharing costs.
A way (and reason) to combine land areas for
effective irrigation
The Plan
Marketing
Talking to the farmers about the benefits
Initially, a free trial on one of the lands in the area to
demonstrate the effectiveness.
Testimonials from places like Dharmapuri, where
some of these techniques have been used