Sprinkler irrigation system is suitable for
- A.The land gradient is steep and soil is easily erodible
- B.The soil is having low permeability
- C.The water table is low
- D.The crops to be grown have deep roots
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, where the land gradient is steep and the soil is easily erodible. A sprinkler breaks water into drops and spreads it like rain, so the field does not have to be levelled and no flowing sheet of water is needed. That makes it the right choice on undulating or sloping land and on light, sandy soil that a flood of water would wash away, which is why the sandy south-west of Haryana is sprinkler country.
Option B is wrong because soil of low permeability takes water in slowly and will pond or run off under a sprinkler; such soil suits surface methods with controlled basins. Option C is wrong because the depth of the water table decides the cost of pumping, not the choice between sprinkler and flood. Option D is wrong because deep-rooted crops need water carried well down the profile, which heavier surface or drip application does better than a light spray.
Read the full article: Haryana Irrigation and Canals: WYC, Bhakra and SYL Canal
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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