Minimum areas required fro MI is 1 hectare

Launched in April 2019

Area covered 5500 Hectares
Operations in 11 states

Problem: optimal irrigation and water requirement of the trees

Water requirement of the plants can be measured through an equipment called

Lysimeter.
Factor is the relation between actual WR and theoretical WR of the crop
Kc established as a universal standard.

If a software has hyperlocal weather data then, the software can calculate it. The
satellite imagery of vegetation is taken by inbuilt algorithm in the softwares gets
Kc.
Weather data is taken from local weather station.

Manna: Hardware free whole field irrigation intelligence (LANSET satellite from
NASA, 1 PIXEL=9 METER one satellite from Planet)
Satelitte images minimum 100 pixels are required
Kc protocol: not specific to field, outdated
Sensor: logistically challenging, single point reading
traditional intuition: not scientifc and room for optimization

Optimal irrigation schedule

remote crop monitoring
operationally cost effective (no hardware needed, easy deployment thus, no capex,
no maintenance)

Flood irrigation the farmers should know how much water is being pumped by their
irrigation system in cubic meters.

App features
Irrigation schedule: predictions based on month, day, rain(mm), hrs of irrigation
etc.
Mannalytics
crop satellite immagery: based on vegetation, visual and plant wetness variability
Field info

Manna by messages in settings

Languages available: English, Hindi, Marathi

Irrigation scheduling value the farmers do not update

so the software keeps on giving values acc. to their recommendation

company msakes dummy userid password

they asked go to playstor so they found farmer doesnt even know playstore
so they sent link to app
but they do not know how to make strong alphanumeric characters
so they started sending links with embedded user id
they put their mobile no and get otp then their manna by messages is turned on (on
whatsapp)
as farmers dont like to navigate much
farmers beyond 45-55 above their son or grandsons/ daughters do their logging in

6 months around 1200

12 months 1700
acceptable (farmer smart phone is a requirement)
available
affordable

mesaurebymap free software: farmer can go to their field, select six points of
their farm creates a boundary of the field and send kml file drectly to whatsapp to
comoany who then get all the information of the farm
some farmers are unable to do that so they send google location but some follow up
calls are required

crm software: customer can send data through the app

no physical contact required.

cloud cover can be penetrated by microwaves and radar satellite can access them so
the unability to have images in cloudy areas.
algorithm works on forecasting and artificial intelligence.
Manna: hyperlocal weather data (targetted 5 km area) + satellite images both
embedded in algorithm
Consultant for irrgation analysis will charge for transport + accomodation +
consulting fee

PRODUCTS (Cont.):
Climate control structure are closed structure so temp and humidity control
Mister:
Tornado Misters: good for rose crop
Gives very fine mists
rows in greenhouses
Can be installed straight upright in open spaces in green houses installed inverted
avaerage droplet size at 3 bar pressure: 150 micron

Foggers
FLF (fogger low flow)
single nozzle
two way nozzle
fourway (greenhouses) nozzle the flow rate 5.4*4

When foggers are in action it feels like AC in greenhouses due to very fine (70
micron) of average droplet size.
Foggers pressure required 4 Bars (i.e. 40 meters)

Operate for only short duration but frequency of operation is high.

After drippers : filters are second most important component of irrigation system.

Disc or screen filter are backup filter but they require manual cleaning.

Rivulis as aautomatic disc or screen filter can clean on themselves. But, they are
expensive. used for large scale operations 50+ acree ground.

Media of filter for Screen filter: mesh

Disc : set of meshes.

Automatic controllers can automate the maintainence and operations of irrigation.

Solenoid valves required
Manual monitoring not required.

Types of automation (depends on grower needs):

Time based (primitive and low cost) controller gives command to the valve to
irrigate the field for a required duration or different plots of field with
variable irrigation
Slightly upgradation (high end) : Volume based controller command given based on
volume or m3 of water to a field
Possible, Sensor based (soil-moisture sensor)
Fertigation controller (different capacity injectors installed)
Backwashing controller

99% drip irrigation is surface irrigation.

Sub Drip Irrigation: buried in the soil (best crop: sugarcane as same crop will be
in field for 5-6 years and doesn't need to be moved frequently (which cannot happen
anyways))

Maintainence: chemicals injected

For Salinity 4 types od acid
Hydrocholoric acid
sulphuric acid
phorphoric acid

for algae or organic impurities, chlorine chemicals added to the system via
Bleaching powder or sodium hypochloride

herbicide (teflan) treatment for sub surface drip irrgation (as roots can enter
from emitter outlet into irrigation system and start growing there)

Rivulis has installed drip irrigation system installed for almost every crop.

Rivulis gives 3 free servicings in a span of years according to govt. subsidy

guidelines
1 month
3 month
10 or completion of 1 year

Additionally,'
Team of technicians asds go to field and ensure rivulis installations are running
Runs through dealers so servicing their reponsibility

Large scale operations by rivulis

if farmer calls then also dealer or rivulis provides service

With rice or paddy the the RnD is struggling with viability. since system cost high
due to close space planting pattern.
But then limitation of plant population and productivity

Comparative studies between traditional and modern techniques like drip irrigation
have given success stories for many crops.

Design of Drip Irrigation system:

Range of price: 30,000-200000

First requirement boundary of the field which requires survey

Now a days GPS survey is most common
Contour survey for elevations
Survey through apps like measure map pro (chargable) measure map lite (free)
Mapso software takes gps data and calculate land area
GPS data can be superimposed on google earth for visualisation purpose

Water Management in Agriculture

Farmers with drip irrigation
without
farmers with rivulus
farmers without rivulis

some geography specific questions can be added to the questionnaire