A webinar on “Realization of precision water management for green Agriculture – An holistic overview” was organized in hybrid mode at ICAR –IIWM, Bhubaneswar on 07 April 2026. Dr S.K. Rautaray, Nodal Officer HRD presented on the objective of Seminar and its link with the Sadhana Saptah. Director of the Institute, Dr A. Sarangi presented details on precession water management in Agriculture. Dr K Yella Reddy, Vice President of ICID provided a detailed account of his experience in micro-irigation, especially in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh. Er B.P. Mishra, Chief Engineer Agriculture, Govt of Odisha and Mr H.K. Mohapatra from the Foundation for Ecological Services provided their field experiences on precession water management in farmers’ field. The participating scientists opined on the topic and the proceeding was compiled. The recommendations emerged from the webinar include ways to achieve precession water management in agriculture. Use of Sensors and IoT enabled smart irrigation in precession water management. Subsurface drip irrigation for precise water application and enhanced water productivity. Pipe conveyance of water adds to precision water management by minimizing loss through seepage and percolation, and evaporation losses. Strengthening of social institutions is required for owning the water management structures. Capacity building of grass root level workers for awareness on achieving precession water management. Common service points and skilling of operators and mechanics of water lifting pumps, fertigation units, solar panels and pumps, sensors, internet connectivity etc. is needed in popularising precession irrigation. Integration of weather advisory is needed for precession water management. Suitable precession water management technologies need to be delineated for different agroecosystems (high, medium and low rainfall areas, waterlogged areas, high, medium and low elevations). Landscape based precession water management is likely to be more effective. Within a landscape, precession water management for different homogeneous land parcel units need to be delineated. Micro-irrigation need promotion in suitable clusters, integrated with common service points, and village knowledge centres in a locality. Benefits of precession irrigation in terms labour and fertilizer saving, low weed problem, quality of fruits, and managing water scarcity problems need to be established.
