Brinjal

Water Management

Introduction

Critical stages

Irrigation methods

Introduction

Water is the most important input for crop production .
Water application method depends on soil, climate and financial resources.
Water availability is the key factor to decide the water application method.
The decision of the farmers to select an appropriate method for water application is influenced by the following:
Soil capability - Land use capability.
Type of soil ( clay Vs. loamy soil Vs. sandy soil)
Cropping system (Paddy system Vs. vegetable cultivation).
Rainfall ( assured rainfall Vs. uncertainity Vs no rainfall )
Evopotranspiration (wind velocity, temperature and other factors).
Water supply sources (canal command or tank command or well command or combination).
The available quantity of supply and rate of supply.
The cost of water (canal, electric motors or oil engine).
The quality of water
The size of land holdings (big land holding Vs. small land holding).
Availability and cost of labour, local traditions and skill.
Ability of farmers to invest and feasibility for mechanization.
Facilities for land shaping in relation to soil.
Irrigation infrastructure for better conveyance efficiency and application efficiency.

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Critical stages for Water requirement

Nursery and early vegetative phase requires copious irrigation.
Excessive irrigation at seedling stage may cause damping off disease resulting high level of seedling mortality.
Stagnation of water at vegetative phase results in poor stand of growth due to build-up of soil borne disease (wilt, root rot) resulting in mortality of plants and poor yield.

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Irrigation Methods

Among the different methods, basin furrow/border furrows is found to be versatile one, because of its applicability to different soil and climatic conditions.

Irrigarion requirement for Brinjal

Crop stage	No. of irrigation	Days after sowing
Light soils
Irrigation for seed germination	1	0
For establishment	1	2
Seedling phase	3	10,15 and 25
Vegetative phase	3	40,45 and 55
Flowering phase	4	65, 75, 85 and 95
Maturity phase	6	110,120,130,140,150 and160
Heavy soils
Seed germination	1	0
Establishment	1	4
Seedling phase	2	15 and 25
Vegetative phase	3	35,45, and 60
Flowering phase	3	75, 85 and 95
Maturity phase	5	110,125,140,150 and160

Totally about 15- 18 irrigations are required fom seed to seed production of brinjal.
The above irrigation schedule may be adjusted according to the weather condition and receipt of rains.

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Brinjal

About Brinjal

History

Morphology

Brinjal Management

Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamilnadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.