Information Package / Course Catalogue
Agricultural Irrigation
Course Code: ORT203
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

To be able to recognize the importance of irrigation in agricultural production, needed for the design of surface and pressurized irrigation systems is to give information to students about the basic issues

Course Content

Irrigation definition, importance and history of the land and water resources potential in Turkey, the land irrigability status, sources of supply, irrigation water, and soil-water-plant relationships, inflitrasyon, crop water consumption, irrigation systems, planning principles, planning of open channels, irrigation schedule and irrigation systems, water distribution patterns, the nature and classification of irrigation water, irrigation methods, and drainage.

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