Abstract:
With the achieving time of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals nearing, the
study projects comparison of water saving capacities along and the cost effectiveness of
the relatively new technologies with the conventional flooding technique. Pakistan is
facing the challenge of water stress which is expected to increase in the coming time.
The study incorporates responsive drip irrigation, subsurface drip irrigation, and raised
bed irrigation in the context of innovative techniques and compares it with flooding
method. The study area of this research is the Potohar region of Pakistan and the data is
conceived from a tomato farm of 10,000 sq. m. System dynamics is used as the primary
tool modelled for cost-effectiveness analysis of this crop for 25 years. Optimization of
these techniques in a combination was made using the mean maximization. This study
finds that the highest environmental benefits are provided by responsive drip irrigation
whereas, the highest monetary benefits are given by subsurface drip irrigation as
compared with the conventional flooding technique.
