Imran Sajid
Germany
M.Sc (Agricultural Structures and Irrigation)
B.Sc (Civil Eng, dept. of Hydraulic Structures)
Dr. Bernhard Tischbein
2022
2021
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2017
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- Water resources (management)
- Environmental and climate change
- Sustainable use of natural resources
- Agriculture, land use, climate change
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- Turkey
InoCottonGROW project
M.Sc (Agricultural Structures and Irrigation)
B.Sc (Civil Eng, dept. of Hydraulic Structures)
Water Resource Management and Development
DAAD, and Fiat Panis Foundation
Options to improve irrigation efficiency and productivity in Punjab Pakistan
Punjab canal irrigation scheme considers one of the biggest continues irrigation system in the world. Yet the present irrigation system is almost hundred years old with deteriorated infrastructures that resulted in low performance. This research addresses social, technical and institution problems of the existing canal irrigation system’s efficiency at Mungi distributary canal command area in Punjab Pakistan. Also we assessed the best on-farm water management interventions focused on cotton (highly water demanding crop) in context of the existing water rights (Warabandi principles in which surface water is distributed in 7 day fixed rotation to farmers proportional to land size) that cannot be changed in near and far future. Two years (2019 and 2020) of fieldwork has been conducted in Mungi area to collect primary and secondary data. AquaCrop model was calibrated and validated for each cultivation method of cotton such as drip, raised bed-furrow, ridge bed-furrow, flood basin and conventional furrow. Irrigation scheduling scenarios developed for each irrigation method separately under current practice and Warabandi irrigation planning. Moreover, survey of stakeholders(farmers, academicians, officials) conducted to prioritize different water management interventions in the area and upscale it from field to distributary canal level. The main expected output of the study is to provide irrigation scheduling as a tool to introduce flexible irrigation in a changing environment at lower scale (farm) and to embed irrigation in the overall agri-eco-socio system.
Dr. Bernhard Tischbein
