1 Linear Programming Approach for Irrigation Scheduling – A case Study

There is an increasing awareness among irrigation planners and engineers to design and operate reservoir systems for maximum efficiency to maximize their benefits. Accordingly, significant work has been done on reservoir operation for known total irrigation demand and on the optimal allocation of water available to crops at the farm level.Very few studies have been conducted to derive optimal reservoir operation policies integrating the reservoir operation with the on-farm utilisation of water by the various crops. This present paper deals with the development of model-- Linear Programming (LP)-- to be applied to real-time reservoir operation in an existing Chiller reservoir system in Madhya Pradesh, India