In which method of irrigation is the entire field divided into a number of levelled plots surrounded by levees?
- A.Basin method
- B.Border strip method
- C.Check method
- D.Furrow method
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, the check method. In check or check basin irrigation the field is levelled and divided into small rectangular plots, each enclosed by low bunds or levees, and water is let into one plot at a time until the required depth stands in it. It is the commonest method in the wheat and paddy fields of Haryana and Punjab because it gives even wetting and keeps water from running off the plot.
Option A, the basin method, is the form used for orchards, where a circular basin is made around each tree, not over the whole field. Option B, the border strip method, divides the field into long narrow strips down the slope and lets a sheet of water run along each strip, without plots on all sides. Option D, the furrow method, sends water along channels between ridges and is used for row crops such as cotton, maize and sugarcane.
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Practice Questions
View allThe district of Ambala is dependent for irrigation on?
- A.Tubewells
- B.Canal
- C.Rainfall
- D.Multi channels
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Ambala lies in the north-eastern corner of Haryana, inside the command of the canals drawn from the Yamuna system, and its fields are watered mainly by that flow supply rather than by any other source; the Dadupur head on the Western Yamuna Canal was built to carry water into this…
Read the full explanation →Which barrage, commissioned in 1999, replaced the Tajewala headworks to feed the Western Yamuna Canal?
- A.Okhla barrage
- B.Hathnikund barrage
- C.Dadupur barrage
- D.Kaushalya barrage
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The barrage was built on the Yamuna in Yamunanagar district a short distance upstream of the old Tajewala headworks and was commissioned in 1999.
Read the full explanation →The Western Yamuna Canal was originally cut during the reign of which ruler?
- A.Akbar
- B.Shah Jahan
- C.Firoz Shah Tughlaq
- D.Sher Shah Suri
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The Delhi sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq had a canal cut from the Yamuna in the fourteenth century to carry water westwards towards Hisar, where he founded Hisar Firoza, and that channel is the ancestor of today's Western Yamuna Canal.
Read the full explanation →The Agra Canal and the Gurgaon Canal take off from the Yamuna at
- A.Hathnikund
- B.Tajewala
- C.Okhla
- D.Wazirabad
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Both canals are headed at the Okhla barrage on the Yamuna below Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The foundation stone of the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal was laid in 1982 at Kapoori village by
- A.Jawaharlal Nehru
- B.Indira Gandhi
- C.Rajiv Gandhi
- D.Morarji Desai
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Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of the canal in 1982 at Kapoori in Patiala district, after the 1981 agreement between Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on the sharing of the Ravi and Beas waters.
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