Agricultural sector is one of the biggest consumers of water resources as more than 70% of the world’s freshwater coming from rivers and other groundwater are utilized in this sector. More crop per drop is actually important for sustainable and drought-proof agriculture. We can say, irrigation scheduling is important to acquire more crops and ensure sustainable water use. Appropriate irrigation scheduling is urgently required for enhancing farm’s profitability, and efficiency by increasing crop yield and quality, decreasing water lost due to intense percolation and runoff, optimizing pumping costs and boosting water use efficiently. 

Several conventional methods have been employed in order to offer better irrigation management for larger areas. However, they are not reliable, time-taking, unaffordable, and not suitable for large areas in terms of water management.

Irrigation planning and management is totally based on full knowledge on demand for irrigation water over space and time. The major components required for irrigation planning are crop type, stage, acreage, yield, and condition. Due to large-scale area involved, time constraints, and dynamic changes, remote sensing is found to be the most suitable tool in handling irrigation management. Remote sensing based inventory for monitoring crops is fruitful for timely-estimation of crop areas in order to facilitate the crop monitoring during the irrigation season, crop yield estimation before the end of season.

We, at Satyukt, apply cutting edge technology that combines potential evapotranspiration, satellite retrieved soil moisture data, weather forecast data, and rainfall data to provide the real-time irrigation advisory at a farm level and insight into how much water crops need to grow without water stress.