CROPWAT: A Computer Program for Irrigation Planning and Management

Setting up cropwat: conditions of use and distribution; Installation; File structure. Getting started on cropwat: Main menu; Printer setting; Default drive and path for data input and retrieval. Eto Calculations: Input climatic station; Retrieval of Eto data from disk; Output. Crop water requeriments: Input climate data; Input of crop data; Crop water requirements results; Program continuation. Rice water requirements: Input of rice data from keyboard; Saving of rice data; Retrieval ofrice data from disk; Date of transplanting; Rice irrigation calculations; Rice irrigation output; Program continuation. Irrigation Scheduling: Data input for irrigation scheduling; Irrigation Scheduling options; Irrigation Scheduling calculations; Irrigation Scheduling output; Program continuation. Scheme water supply: Data input; Calculations; Output. Calculation of reference evapotranspiration: Data collection; Data conversion; Climatic data input; Climatic data and Eto output; Climatic and Eto data saving; Processing of rainfall data: Rainfall definitions; Rain data collection; Rain data processing; Effective Rainfall method; Rain data input; Saving climatic data; Printout of climatic data. Cropping pattern and crop information: Data collection; Cropping pattern; Crop data input. Crop water requirement calculations: File input; CWR calculations; CWR field files; Summary of CWR calculations. Scheme and canal water requirements: Calculation procedures; Field file input; Scheme water requirements (SWR) results; Evaluation of SWR results. Irrigation Scheduling: Data input; Soil data collection; Soil datainput; Irrigation scheduling applications.