Question

describe bamboo drip irrigation in which state of india is it practised

Answer 1

Bamboo Drip Irrigation System is a 200 year old system of
tapping stream and spring water by using bamboo pipe and transporting water
from higher to lower regions through gravity.

Features :

(a) 18-20 litres of water enters the bamboo pipe system, get
transported over hundreds of metres and finally reduces to 20-80 drops per
minute at the site of the plant.

 (b) The flow of water
into the pipes is controlled by manipulating the pipe positions.



Bamboo Drip Irrigation System:- For more than 200 years, the farmers of North-Eastern part of India, in the state of Meghalaya, have been using an indigenous technique of bamboo drip irrigation to irrigate their plantation crops.