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Irrigation Management: the IRRINET package

A. Battilani , P. Mannini

…water scarcity and droughts have enormous environmental, social and economic impacts... to sustainably manage the increasing pressures on water resources, new and innovative approaches are needed.

Communication on the European Innovation Partnership on Water - COM(2012) 216 final

A. Battilani, P. Mannini - Sustainable, Knowledge based Irrigation Management: the IRRINET package

Innovative thinking and smarter use of innovation are crucial to sustain economic growth in rural areas, while using water in a more efficient way.

Innovation is not a single step process. Single problem may require multiple approaches as technical upgrade, improved governance, better information, management tools, etc.

SUSTAINABLE WATER USE IN AGRICULTURE

IRR.

TECHNOLOGY

WATER

QUALITY

WATER REUSE

SOIL

HYDROLOGY

SOIL

FERTILITY

CLIMATE

PLANT

CROPPING

SYSTEM

STORAGE

EFFICIENCY

CONVEYANCE

EFFICIENCY

APPLICATION

EFFICIENCY

SALINITY

SODICITY

BORON TOXICITY

MANGANESE

TOXICITY

DIRECT REUSE

DECENTRALISED

TREATMENT

SEWAGE

TREATMENT

PLANT

INDIRECT REUSE

POLLUTED WATER

SUSTAINABLE

WATER USEIRR.

TECHNIQUES

STORAGE

EFFICIENCY

CONVEYANCE

EFFICIENCY

APPLICATION

EFFICIENCY

SOIL

HYDROLOGY

SOIL

FERTILITY

CLIMATE

PLANT

CROPPING

SYSTEM

SUSTAINABLE

WATER USEIRR.

TECHNIQUES

STORAGE

EFFICIENCY

CONVEYANCE

EFFICIENCY

APPLICATION

EFFICIENCY

SOIL

HYDROLOGY

SOIL

FERTILITY

CLIMATE

PLANT

CROPPING

SYSTEM

SUSTAINABLE

WATER USEIRR.

TECHNIQUES

STORAGE

EFFICIENCY

CONVEYANCE

EFFICIENCY

APPLICATION

EFFICIENCY

FAECAL

CONTAMINATION


Technological innovation by itself cannot produce the expected results while, when not correctly applied, can cause losses

arising on investments made by Farmers, thus decreasing the Economic Water Productivity Index and the overall

sustainability.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES ARE NOT A PANACEA


IRRINET is an Irrigation Scheduling expert system, developed by the CER implementing the results obtained in more than 50 years of research on plant/water relation and sustainable irrigation management.

The IRRINET project was supported and co-funded by the Emilia-Romagna Government with the aim to progressively reduce water use for irrigation.

IRRINET is among the tools provided to the farmers in the frame of Emilia-Romagna’s Rural Development Plan 2007-2013.

The IRRINET web service is freely available and provides irrigation advices for the main water demanding crops



FIELD LOCALIZATION ON A GOOGLE MAP

FARM GEOREFERENCING

CLIMATE DATA

WATER TABLE LEVEL

SOIL PARAMETERS

CROP AND IRRIGATION SYSTEM (INPUT)


Automatic assignment of climate, soil,water table depth data related to the farm.

Users are asked to select the crop and the irrigation systems, and to input his own data when available.


Irrigation Volume/Duration CROP

WHEN Irrigate

Daily Water Requirement

Confirmation of irr.


User MUST PROVIDE feedback about irrigation

volume

Irrigation Record (compliance with regulations,

standards, RDP etc.)

•Allows to reach farmers who are not connected to Internet (new users) •Provide a more friendly user interface (new users) •Allows to receive customised irrigation advise when in the field •Allows Extension services to manage hundreds of farms •Provides additional information as disease alarms or tech. updates


TEXT MESSAGE


IRRINET has evolved in IRRINET Plus which implement economic calculation of the benefit related to the next irrigation through a traffic light advisory system. Farmers are stimulated by the economic approach to maximise profit while reducing water overuse.

Irrinet results at a Glance

• Since 2009- More than 50 million m3 of blue water saved per year

• 2011- 2350 users registered to the service in addition to more than 9000 farmers served through the Water Reclamation Consortia, with a share of about 23% of the irrigated area in the Emilia-Romagna region


Water Use Efficiency (WUE):

Traditional 17 kg/m3 IRRINET 25 kg/m3 (+47%)

Anconelli et al, 2003

REASONS OF SUCCESS

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YIELD + 13% Water use – 27%

TRADITIONAL TRADITIONAL



MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Water table depth

monitoring network

Irrigation water Quality

Tools: Filtering station design;

Micro Irr. Systems design; Pipe sizing;

Micro Irr. Equipment quality

assessment; System discharge.

Scientific and vulgarization papers

on Irrigation

Water and Nutrients joint management (Fertigation)

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B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P

Fertirrigere V3.2

METEO

GESTIONE

DINAMICA

CALCFERT

INPUT

FINE

MIXFERT

GESTIONE

STATICA A. Battilani

Consorzio CER

Irrigation Scheduling DSS

TO TRAIN BY DEMONSTRATION


Irrigation Technologies Demonstration Field - OPEN DAYS

Since 1989 an average of 15 groups, 300 persons, per year attend the Open Days (10 events per year)

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

EU Project Water 4 Crops


Water

Manager

SOLAR PANEL

WATER MANAGER

STORAGE BATTERY

SOLAR PUMP

WIRELESS

VALVE SOIL WATER CONTENT

WIRELESS SENSOR

PRESSURIZED

MICROIRRIGATIONRevAB121108

UNMANNED DRONE REMOTE SENSING

SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING

WATER MANAGER CONTROL STATION

EU Project FIGARO


FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

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-50 Mm3

-100 Mm3

-500 Mm3

Year Water Stakeholders (LWR Consortia)

Area (ha) managed by Irriframe/Irrinet

Potential Water savings

(m3 *106)

2011 17 50.000 42-56

2012 25 100.000 90-130

2015 70 500.000 490-650


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