irrigation is widely used to irrigate closegrowing crops that are susceptible to stem and/or
crown injuries when exposed to prolonged inundation. Properly designed and managed border strips
can apply irrigation water at high levels of efficiency and uniformity and with minimal adverse effects to the environment.
The objective of border irrigation design is to maximize a
measure of merit (performance criterion) while minimizing
some undesirable consequences. The performance criterion
could be economic or physical. In either case, mathematical
models are used as design and management tools to relate the
selected performance criterion with the decision variables