Q. A canal aligned on the watershed saves the cost of constructed cross drainage works.

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Q. Which type of canal is most useful in hilly areas?

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Q. Contour canal can irrigate only on one side of the canal.

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Q. What type of canal necessitates construction of cross drainage works more than any other types?

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Q. Which type of canal is the farmer’s responsibility?

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Q. Which type of canal need syphons?

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Q. If a looping is present in the ridge line they how can that area be irrigated with?

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Q. A curve in channel results in _____________

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Q. If the discharging capacity of the channel is less than 0.5 cumecs then, the minimum recommended value for curve radius is _________

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Q. The Gross Command Area (G.C.A) represents the geographical area of the Doab.

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Q. What is the Annual Intensity of irrigation (AII)?

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Q. What is Gross Cropped Area?

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Q. The ratio of the actual operating period of a distributary to the crop period is called as ____________

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Q. The number of hectares irrigable per cumec of the canal capacity at its head is known as ____________

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Q. The cropped area in Rabi season is usually increased.

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Q. The Gross Command Area for a distributary is 8000 hectares 80% of which is culturable irrigable. The intensity of irrigation for Rabi season is 50% and the average duty at the head of the distributary is 2000 hectares/cumec. Determine the discharge required at the head of the distributary.

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Q. The CCA of a water course is 1500 hectares. The intensity of sugarcane and wheat crops is 20% and 40% respectively. The duties for the crops at the head of the watercourse are 730 hectares/cumec and 1600 hectares/cumec respectively. Calculate the design discharge at the outlet assuming a time factor equal to 0.8.

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Q. The transplantation of rice takes 18 days and the total depth of water required by the crop is 60 cm on the field. During this transplantation period, rain starts falling and about 10 cm of rain is being utilized to fulfill the rice demand. Find the duty of irrigation water required for rice assuming 25% losses of water in watercourses.

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Q. Loss of canal discharge occurs mainly due to?

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Q. Which of the following factor do not affect seepage loss?

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