For rational management, water conservation and efficient use of water resources. The republican meeting (protocol No. 104 of July 24, 2014) decided to establish the journal "Irrigation and Melioration", which was registered with the Press and Information Agency of Uzbekistan.

The journal is registered with the Press and Information Agency of Uzbekistan on March 4, 2015 (license No. 0845).

The founder of the journal is the Ministry of Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent Institute of Irrigatiоn and agricultural mechanization engineers.

International Standard Serial Number- ISSN 2181-8584

The scientific and technical journal "Irrigation and Melioration" is published quarterly and distributed to subscribers four times a year.

The purpose and objectives of the journal: The journal covers the issues of training personnel in higher educational institutions of agriculture and water management, rational management and effective use of water resources, research institutes, research and production centers, an introduction of advanced water-saving machinery and technologies, improvement of the meliorative state of irrigated lands. Taking into account the conditions of a particular region, the magazine covers issues of growing agricultural products and developing samples of agricultural machinery, creating innovative, resource and energy-saving machinery and technologies for growing and producing agricultural products, generating electricity in the agrarian sector, using modern information technologies, the latest scientific achievements in the development of renewable sources of energy, scientific and practical research, and bility of science and technology, highlights the decrees and decisions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on deepening economic reform, decisions of the Cabinet and the rules of international treaties, constantly commented other normative documents published on the pages of scientific-practical and analytical articles.

The magazine extensively highlights the problems of water management, contributes to increasing the intellectual abilities of irrigation and agricultural mechanization specialists, gives advice and recommendations to specialists of water management organizations on effective use of electrical energy, economic and legal and scientific councils to farm managers.

Subjects of the scientific and technical journal "Irrigation and Melioration":

- Irrigation and melioration;

- Hydraulic engineering structures and pumping stations;

- Mechanization of irrigation and reclamation works;

- Mechanization of agriculture;

- Electrification and automation of agriculture and water resources management;

- Economics of water management and use of land resources;

- Training in irrigation and melioration;

- Reforms in the field of irrigation and land reclamation;

The Scientific and Technical Journal "Irrigation and Melioration", by the Decree of the Presidium of the Higher Certification Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 219/5 of December 22, 2015, is included in the list of published scientific publications in the areas: 05.00.00-Engineering, 06.00.00 - Agricultural Sciences, 08.00. 00 - Economics.