Performance evaluation of drip irrigation system for different crop sequences

A field study on drip irrigation was conducted for different crop sequences consisting of only vegetable crop, only field crops and mixture of vegetable and field crops. The study revealed that cauliflower-hybrid chilli i.e. vegetable crop sequence with drip at low level of irrigation (IW/CPE=0.50) gave more yield and saving of irrigation water as compared to other crop sequences. The other crop sequences which comprised of vegetable and field crops shows non-significant increase in yield with drip irrigation as compared to furrow irrigation, but have substantial amount of water saving without affecting the crop yield.