Surface Drainage

Construct drainage system in the field.

·       Random system: Small scattered depression are connected by drains to one another and conveyed to the outlet

·     Parallel system or field ditch: Fields can be graded for discharge into lateral drains bordering the field. Lateral drains are connected to the main drains

·       Parallel open ditch system: It is resembling a parallel system excepting the drains which are replaced by open ditches

·      Bedding system: Parallel beds are developed by shaping and smoothing the land surface so that the run-off drain laterally from the beds to   dead furrows

·       Subsurface runoff systems: Pipe/ tile drainage, mole drainage and drainage wells.