Mysore/Mysuru: India being a tropical country, the temperatures during summer rise up to 40-45°C. Due to this the ring wells, which supply water for agricultural land lacking irrigation, dry up to alarming levels. This puts lot of hardship on farmers, who depend on ring wells for irrigation.
The students of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru, have come out with an innovative solution to increase the yield of ring well without increasing the diameter of ring wells. Their solution involves introduction of slotted and perforated laterals in radially outward direction along the circumference of the ring well. This enables the farmers to achieve more yield without increasing the diameter of the ring well.
