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This book is intended to serve as a textbook for everyone interested in soil and water conservation, surveying and irrigation. It covers most of the topics related to the surveying and levelling, soil and water conservation measures, erosion and watershed management. The main topics which are included in the book are: introduction to surveying and levelling, instruments to be used and methods of surveying, contours and computation of area of field, runoff and its determination, land degradation and types of erosion, LUCC and soil and water conservation measures, water harvesting , watershed and watershed management, irrigation, irrigation pumps and water measuring devices.
This book is specially designed as per the syllabus of the recent 5th Dean's Committee report of ICAR for the subject of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering. The materials on the subject are set forth in such manner and order, as to enable UG student better understanding. Professional training institutes like NGOs, KVKs, polytechnics, rural institutes etc dealing in soil and water conservation, surveying, on-farm water management would find this textbook of immense value.
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