Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering

Department of Research and Development, Research institute in Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Evaluation of Sprinkler Heads at Beles Sugar Development Project
  Author(s): Fikadu Kinfe Abshiro*, Kidane Tesfa Michael Gadisa and Mayet Feleke Adugna
  
  Beles sugar development project has faced the problems of inadequate and poor uniformity of irrigation water. Thus, the system has failed to meet the crop water demand. Having this, the plantation section irrigators were made the two combined sprinkler heads in one HDPE pipe which is fitted with the main riser like the single sprinkler head. By applying the modified combine sprinkler heads, the cane under water stress has recovered soon relative to the existing sprinkler head. The correlated challenge was the irrigation set hour of the modified combine sprinkler heads was not known and its technical comparative discharge advantage was not determined. Thus, this research work was undertaken to compare the modified two combined sprinkler heads with the normal single sprinkler head and to develop sprinkler set hour under the current operational situation. The parameters evaluated were sp.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2168-9768.2022.11.385

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