Developing a web-based tool to estimate irrigation water requirements for agricultural crops and urban landscape in Texas was the subject of a presentation given by Research Scientist Ripendra Awal and co-authored by Ali Fares, Interim Associate Director of Research, at a meeting of the American Society of Nepalese Engineers held in Houston, TX, on September 17. A user friendly Web APP will soon be available on different smart device platforms such as Android and Apple. The user can select the location on the map for which s/he would like to establish an irrigation schedule program (e.g. a crop in the field or a turf of a home lawn) based on the site’s specific information (crop type, soil type, rainfall, irrigation system, and time of the year). The APP retrieves all needed information from different online databases and displays the corresponding irrigation scheduling program in graphic and text formats. This work fulfils one of the objectives of the multistate Scaling Micro-Irrigation Technologies to Address the Global Water Challenge Project W3128. Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) is a member with several other land grant institutions. Fares has been a member of this group since 2003 and has represented PVAMU since 2013. The Microirrigation Working group, W3128 was the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (ESCOP) of the Land Grant Colleges and Universities.

James Palmer

 

James Palmer, Ph.D.
Interim Dean and Director of Land-Grant Programs
jmpalmer@pvamu.edu
(936) 261-2214