Training on Irrigation Water Management

Trainer: Mohamoud Mohamed Abdulahi, MSc Water and Land Management (University of Florence, Italy)

TRAINING Duration: 4 days (24 hours)

TRAINING DESCRIPTION
Irrigation principles: Evapo-transpiration, irrigation requirements and scheduling, plant-soil-water relationship, efficiencies, selection and management of irrigation
systems, Using Softwares:
New_LocClimWAT, SPAW, HWSD and CropWat,

1. TRAINING OBJECTIVES
To fill local NGOs and stakeholder’s capacity gap on implementation of irrigation scheme through technical training on irrigation development also to produce participants
who:
 understand the concepts, principles and application of irrigation in enhancement of crop production
 are competent in the design, installation and management of irrigation systems

2. TRAINING CONTENT, METHODS OF INSTRUCTION, TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT REQUIRED

Day Time Lecture CONTENT METHOD OF TOOLS /
INSTRUCTION / EQUIPMENT
Time allocated NEEDED

8:30-10:00 LECTURE 1.  Definition of irrigation Interactive Lecture LCD Projector

Irrigation water management  Brief history of irrigation practice in the world Presentations and
10:30-12:30 Irrigation methods and Local  Introduction to irrigation principles experience sharing
experiance
 Experience sharing
One  Group discussion
1:30-4:00 LECTURE 2.  How to determine Agroclimatic condition using Group discussion LCD Projector
New_LocCLI New_LocClim software experience sharing Laptops
M software  Software Background and basic functions Demonstrations and
 Interpolation of agroclimatic data exercise
 Annual cycles of daily minimum, average and
maximum temperature,
 LECTURE 3.  Recap of Basic Soil physical properties ( Interactive Lecture LCD Projector
Soil- Plant -Water texture, structure, porosity)and their
Relationships relationship to soil moisture Group Discussion
8:30-10:00  Methods of expression of soil moisture
Introduction to content
HWSD Software Case study
 Plant rooting depths, effective root zone, crop
characteristics (stages of growth, length of
growing period, etc)
 Total Available Moisture(TAM),depletion factor,
Two Readily Available Moisture (RAM) and irrigation
requirement

Demonstrations and hands Personal Computers

LECTURE 4  Determining soil water characteristics using HWSD on exercise
10:30-12:30 Harmonized World Soil Data Base software
(HWSD) Software  Standard grid and a single reference soil
classification
 How to estimate a large number of soil properties
(20) both for top- and subsoil.
 Estimation of soil moisture storage capacities and
soil organic carbon pools

 How to estimate the hydrologic water holding and Demonstrations and hands Personal Computers
LECTURE 5 transmission characteristics of an agricultural soil on exercise
1:30-4:00 Soil Water Characteristics profile layer using SPAW software
Software (SPAW)  How to estimate soil water content-tension-
(hydraulic properties calculator)
conductivity relationships and associated standard
water contents.
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LECTURE  Definition, factors affecting ET process Interactive lecture LCD Projector
8:30-10:00 Evapotranspiration (ET)  (ET)
 Direct ET measurement methods .
 Use of equations for ET determination
 Historical rainfall data, reliable and effective rainfall
 LECTURE 6  Groundwater contribution through capillary rise to the Interactive lecture LCD Projector
root zone Demonstrations and hands
10:30-12:30 Irrigation water on exercise
 Irrigation requirements
requirement
Three  Use of computer soft wear (CropWat) for ET
determination

1:30-4:00 Lecture 6  Plant requirements Practical Exercise LCD Projector

Combining New_Loc_Clim,  Soil characteristics Case study: Baki Computer Lab
SPAW,HSWD  Agro-climatic condition CropWat soft ware

Lecture 7  Plant requirements Practical Exercise LCD Projector

8:30-10:00 Combining NewLoc_Clim,  Soil characteristics Case study: Baki Computer Lab
SPAW,HSWD  Agro-climatic condition CropWat soft
ware
LECTURE 8  Determine the Crop Water Requirement CropWAT and hands LCD Projector
Four 10:30-12:30 CropWat (CWR) using CropWAT on exercise) Computer Lab
 Determination of effective rainfall CropWat soft
 Gross irrigation water requirement and duty ware
LECTURE 9  Irrigation scheduling principles Lecture LCD Projector
1:30-4:00 CropWAT  Irrigation efficiencies and their effect and CropWAT and hands on Computer Lab
Irrigation scheduling, irrigation  importance in design and management exercise CropWat soft ware
efficiency

Qawdhan, Jan 2018, WHH