High level View of addressing un-seasonal CYCLONEs

OPERATION JATA JOOTA

Objective: Avoid harvest loss and therefore human loss from excess un-seasonal rains.

Required resources and respective purpose:

1)     Small pieces of Land at intervals – Huge RCC/steel columns are erected in corners of grids of cultivated land.

2)     Huge RCC columns – These columns serve purpose of supporting hanging strings which carry the fiber glass.

3)     Steel strings – Strings are suspended from each RCC column and hold the fiber/ transparent glass.

4)     Fiber/ transparent Glass – this will act as umbrella from rain water dropping off into the fields and as well as collects rain water.

5)     High capacity pumps: These are setup-up at water collection points and pump water outside to draught areas.

6)    Power supply to pumps.

Challenges for Jata-Joota:

1)     Power supply for lift-irrigation

2)     High chances of Earth quakes disturbing the complete matrix-like structure.

3)     Farmers loosing land.

4)     Maintenance of this entire setup.

5)     Dedicated, service minded personnel to carryout this task.

Purpose of Jata-Joota:

1)     To avoid excess/un-seasonal rain water that destroys fruit from major commercial crops like cotton and rice before harvest.

2)     To collect the excess water in an engineering/scientific manner and route the excess rain water to draught areas.
3) A cyclonic rain can be identified in advance but cannot effects can never be averted and hence this solution.

Additional advantages:

1)                         Gandhi Ji’s dream “Villages are backbone of India” comes true, at least in near future.

2)                         It is an engineer’s, society’s, government’s responsibility to avoid human loss; Major issues like farmer suicides are mitigated.

3)                         Harvest loss is mitigated to a large extent.

4)                         The water which is collected this way is routed to draught areas like Medak.

5)                         Birds which cause minimal loss also can be kept off from farming sites.

6)                         The lift-irrigated water can be used to de-fluorinate lands like Nalgonda District.

7)                         Metro city requirements like Hyderabad / Chennai/ Blr are easily met easily by lift irrigation.

8)                         This is a once for all solution for two-thee major challenges.

9)                         Jata-Joota will stand as a major example of rain-water harvesting to common public.

10)                     I would like to emphasize at the end, that IT Engineers have never ignored farmers.

JAI JAWAN JAI KISAN

HUMARA BHARAT MAHAN