IRRIGATION SPEECH

It is with great pride and honor to present to you a sort of information

about IRRIGATION SYSTEM in the Philippines. I hope I can share
something important and useful to everybody.
First, what is an IRRIGATION?
Irrigation is the agricultural process of applying controlled amounts of
water to land to assist in the production of crops, as well as to grow
landscape plants and lawns, where it may be known as watering.
Irrigation helps to grow agricultural crops, maintain landscapes, and
revegetate disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of less than
average rainfall. Irrigation also has other uses in crop production,
including frost protection,[2] suppressing weed growth in grain fields
and preventing soil consolidation. Irrigation systems are also used for
cooling livestock, dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining.
Irrigation is often studied together with drainage, which is the removal
of surface and sub-surface water from a given location.
Irrigation water can come from groundwater (extracted from springs or
by using wells), from surface water (withdrawn from rivers, lakes or
reservoirs) or from non-conventional sources like treated wastewater,
desalinated water, drainage water, or fog collection. A special form of
irrigation using surface water is spate irrigation, also called floodwater
harvesting. In case of a flood (spate), water is diverted to normally dry
river beds (wadis) using a network of dams, gates and channels and
spread over large areas. The moisture stored in the soil will be used
thereafter to grow crops. Spate irrigation areas are in particular located
in semi-arid or arid, mountainous regions. While floodwater harvesting
belongs to the accepted irrigation methods, rainwater harvesting is
usually not considered as a form of irrigation. Rainwater harvesting is
the collection of runoff water from roofs or unused land and the
concentration of this.
Increased irrigation efficiency has a number of positive outcomes for the
farmer, the community and the wider environment. Low application
efficiency infers that the amount of water applied to the field is in excess
of the crop or field requirements. Increasing the application efficiency
means that the amount of crop produced per unit of water increases.
Improved efficiency may either be achieved by applying less water to an
existing field or by using water more wisely thereby achieving higher
yields in the same area of land. In some parts of the world, farmers are
charged for irrigation water hence over-application has a direct financial
cost to the farmer. Irrigation often requires pumping energy (either
electricity or fossil fuel) to deliver water to the field or supply the correct
operating pressure. Hence increased efficiency will reduce both the
water cost and energy cost per unit of agricultural production. A
reduction of water use on one field may mean that the farmer is able to
irrigate a larger area of land, increasing total agricultural production.
Low efficiency usually means that excess water is lost through seepage
or runoff, both of which can result in loss of crop nutrients or pesticides
with potential adverse impacts on the surrounding environment.
Improving the efficiency of irrigation is usually achieved in one of two
ways, either by improving the system design or by optimizing the
irrigation management. Improving system design includes conversion
from one form of irrigation to another (e.g., from furrow to drip
irrigation) and also through small changes in the current system (for
example changing flowrates and operating pressures). Irrigation
management refers to the scheduling of irrigation events and decisions
around how much water is applied.
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SPEECH

Irrigation is
Important to the
farmers because it
helps the farmers IRRIGATION PROBLEMS
to have a good
harvest. AND
SOLUTION
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