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Irrigation Engineering Questions and Answers

– Water Requirements – Duty and Delta of a
Crop
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This set of Irrigation Engineering Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Water
Requirements – Duty and Delta of a Crop”.

1. What is the time interval between two consecutive watering called?

a) Crop Period
b) Period
c) Base Period
d) Rotation Period

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Answer: d
Explanation: Every type of crop requires di erent amount of water for its complete growth in
certain xed intervals of time. The time interval between two consecutive intervals is called a
rotation period.

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2. What is total depth of water, for complete growth of crop called?

a) Triangle
b) Delta
c) Duty of Water
d) Rotation Period

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Answer: b
Explanation: The total quantity of water required by the crop for its complete growth can be
expressed in terms of depth of water standing on the eld. This total depth expressed in cm is
called delta.

3. Duty of water helps in the work out of discharge required for designing the channel.
a) True
b) False

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4. What is the name of duty called as in direct irrigation?

a) Flow Duty
b) Quantity Duty
c) Duty
d) Delta

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Answer: a
Explanation: When direct irrigation is used, then the units of duty, always expressed in
hectares/cumec. Then duty is called ow duty.

5. Which type of period is slightly more than its counterpart period?

a) Crop Period
b) Period
c) Base Period

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d) Rotation Period

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6. Flow irrigation system has lower duty than lift irrigation system.
a) True
b) False

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7. Which type of units is used to de ne high and low duty?

a) Hectare-meters
b) Hectares/cumec
c) Meters
d) Centimeters

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Answer: b
Explanation: According to the number of hectares/cumec, if the irrigated area is large or small
then it is called high or low duty respectively.

8. Which type of area is large in quantity compared to others?

a) Gross Commanded Area (G.C.A)
b) Culturable Commanded Area (C.C.A)
c) Culturable Cultivated Area
d) Culturable Uncultivated Area

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9. In what type of area crop is not sown for a particular season?

a) Gross Commanded Area (G.C.A)
b) Culturable Commanded Area (C.C.A)
c) Culturable Cultivated Area
d) Culturable Uncultivated Area

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Answer: d
Explanation: This type of area is not kept under cultivation because, to restore the fertility of
the soil, to provide pasture land for animals, to prevent water logging in the land.

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10. Given that, a particular irrigation eld has C.C.A as 200 hectares, out which 150 hectares of
land is cultivated for rabi season and 100 hectares of land is cultivated for kharif season. What is
the intensity of irrigation for each season?
a) 50%, 100%
b) 120%, 60%
c) 75%, 50%
d) 150%, 75%

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11. Given that a particular crop requires about 20 cm depth of water at an interval of 40 days,
and the base period is 400 days. Find the delta for the crop? Now using this delta nd the duty of
water for the crop?
a) 150 cm, 1150 hectares/cumec
b) 180 cm, 1825 hectares/cumec
c) 200 cm, 1728 hectares/cumec
d) 195 cm, 1920 hectares/cumec

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12. It is said that a particular type of crop requires a depth of 6 cm of water every 24 days and
the crop period is 168 days. Find the delta of the crop?
a) 50 cm
b) 42 cm
c) 20 cm
d) 95 cm

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13. How can we improve the duty of water?

a) Lining of Canals
b) Construction of Weir
c) Construction of Dam
d) Check Dams

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Answer: a
Explanation: By lining of canals, carrying irrigation supplies we can reduce seepage and
evaporation losses. Therefore reducing the eld requirement of water increases the duty.

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14. Which factor directly a ects the duty of water?

a) Type of Crop
b) Useful Rainfall
c) Type of Soil
d) Canals

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Answer: b
Explanation: If the rainfall useful is for the growth of crops, then more the rainfall less will be

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the requirement of water for the growth of crops and more will be the duty of irrigation water.

15. At which point in the entire canal system the duty of water will be more?
a) Head of the Water-course
b) Head of the Minor
c) Head of the Distributary
d) Head of the Branch

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