Abstract: Estimation of crop water requirement is necessary in the purpose of irrigation scheduling and optimal use in water management. In this study crop water requirements and irrigation scheduling of kharif season is estimated for the command area of Mallour distributary in Ambala at Haryana. Paddy and wheat are the major crops in the study area of Ambala region. The duration of paddy crop is 120 days. The cropwat model was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is used for calculating the crop water requirement (CWR) and scheduling of irrigation. Meteorological data from 1981 to 2019 were obtained from the Nasa Power Generation and soil data were obtained from the FAO 56 paper. The rainfall characteristics is estimated with climatological data and it is observed that the average annual precipitation is almost 773.56 mm where the total rainfall was 630 mm......
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