Engineering Interventions in Sustainable Trickle Irrigation

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus; and Senior Acquisitions Editor and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief in Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc. He has worked as a Soil Conservation Inspector and as a Research Assistant at Haryana Agricultural University and Ohio State University. He was the first agricultural engineer to receive the professional license in Agricultural Engineering in 1986 from the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico. On September 16, 2005, he was proclaimed as "Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the twentieth century" by the ASABE, Puerto Rico Section, for his pioneering work on micro irrigation, evapotranspiration, agroclimatology, and soil and water engineering. During his professional career of 45 years, he has received many prestigious awards. A prolific author and editor, he has written more than 200 journal articles and textbooks and has edited over 25 books.

Basamma K Aladakatti is a Research Scholar presently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Soil and Water Engineering from the College of Technology and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Udaipur, India. She completed her BTech and MTech degrees from University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, respectively. She is an awardee of the INSPIRE fellowship from the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. for her PhD and received a Junior Research Fellowship award from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi. She has published several full-length research papers in national and international journals as well as more than 20 abstracts and four full-length papers in various symposiums and conferences on various significant topics of agriculture engineering. She has received two best paper awards. Her career pursuits include working on research projects pertaining to refinement of micro irrigation and drought analysis and forecasting.