Open AccessThe wells of the underground water in Al-Aatha area south of Al-Miqdadiya District and its Agricutural uses
Author(s) -
Yaser Mohammed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/722/1/012036
Subject(s) - agriculture , irrigation , natural (archaeology) , arable land , vegetation (pathology) , groundwater , water resource management , water resources , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , geography , geology , archaeology , ecology , medicine , geotechnical engineering , pathology , biology
Al-Aatha area is located in the south of AL Muqdadia district in Diyala province. its unreclaimed lands. It was natural pastures distributed among peasants and farmers on contracts after the imposition of the Economic Blockade on Iraq in 1990. This area contains alot of hills, sand-dunes and arable lands. It covers two agricultural territories with an area of (55034) Dunams. These are rain irrigated iands and the underground water provides their needs for water in Agriculture. The Wells water is affected by many natural factors which led to agglomeration under this area such as geological structure, sandy texture, soil and natural vegetation. The wells of this area are characterized by huge amounts of water through the permanent supply of water which goes on for about 14 hours aday. This means that the level of water does not fall much and this proves that it contains ahuge under ground water reservoir. This case encouraged use the extensive agriculture with winter crops such as wheat depending on these Wells. So the farming of this crop is about (9173) Dunams acope with agricultural plan for the present season (2019-2020) The irrgation of two methods. The first one by surface irrigation with an area about (8531) Dunams and the other is the modern system is called sprangler irrigation. The region contains five advance methods with an area about (642) Dunams.