About Dr.Raman

Dr. Swaminathan Raman, the author of the software has dedicated more than 30 years of his life for the Research and Developmental activities of Soil and Water Management in the country in general and Gujarat state in particular. Even after retirement he continues to engage himself in this field as freelance consultant and advisor/consultant to state/national and international level organizations

The adoption of micro irrigation in the country is quite encouraging since last 5 to 6 years. Thanks to Govt. of India and state governments for their policy decisions and NCPAH in implementing the same and farmers for accepting the modern technology. While the area under micro irrigation is increasing, it is a fact that the farmers still irrigate their crops with larger quantity of water than the requirement through micro irrigation. The governments are subsidizing MI to save water and if it is not happening to the anticipated level, then the purpose of the subsidy will be lost. One of the reasons for the excess use of water is that the farmers do not have the data on the stage wise water requirement of crops in various agro climatic regions of the country and time of operation of MI systems under different designs. The author has been working to find a solution for this since last 5 years and developed a software wherein a farmer can find out the water requirement for his crop and also workout the time of operation as per the MI design. The software takes into consideration the local climatic conditions, crop geometry, growth stage of the crop, type of micro irrigation system and its design and efficiency, soil type and the irrigation schedule followed..It has also provision for incorporating the changes in local climatic conditions including effective rainfall. This software is uploaded in the CLOUD and farmer from any corner of the nation can have an access to it. Further this is an interactive one wherein the farmer can get the data as per his local conditions

This software can help the farmer to moderate his water application resulting in saving of both water and energy. Apart from the advantages to the farmer the government also can save crores of rupees as reduced water use by the farmer, will help the government to spend less on creating additional water resources

Since the database in the software is the average of spatial and temporal situations, the author does not claim the result to be 100 per cent accurate and the suggested value from the software may be taken as indicative one with about 10 to 15 per cent deviation.