Investigation and Analysis of Farmers' Irrigation Actions in North China Plain well irrigation district

Jiang Xiaoru1 et al.(1 Agricultural Technology Extension Station of HebeI Province,Shijiazhuang,050011,China;2 Agricultural Bureau of Sanhe City,Sanhe,100038,China;3 Center for Agricultural Resources Research,Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shijiazhuang,050021,China)

North China Plain well irrigation district;irrigation actions of farmers;investigation and analysis

For water-saving agriculture research,people are more concerned about its technical merits and demerits,to the neglect of the impact of human factors.In this paper,using a stratified random sampling strategy,questionnaire survey about farmers' irrigation actions and its impact factors was conducted in the North China Plain well irrigation district.The statistical results show that there are great differences among farms with regard to irrigation organization,irrigation schedule of wheat and corn.Analysis shows that the factors of farmers,such as practitioners way,non-agricultural income,educational level and age,have a significant impact in the evolvement of crop irrigation schedule.Meanwhile,the prevalence of rotation irrigation management under union households' small irrigation system promoted the irrigation times to some extent.In view of this,countermeasures comes from propaganda,education,policy,management and other aspects could be introduced to develop water-saving potentialities from human factors and improve water-saving effect.