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IRRIGATION
 –
New Solutions fora New Century
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Priyank Tiwari
 
Basic Facts
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Agriculture contributes about 16.6 % of GDP
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60 % of population still lives in villages
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Approx 54 % of total arable land in India is underirrigation
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India is a dominant producer (among the top 3)of wheat,rice,sugar,tobacco,tea, coconuts just toname a few
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India’s yield for majority of agricultural products
is significantly less than other countries
 
Problem
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Fragmented land holding-lower labourproductivityand make modern mechanized farming unviable
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Large percentage (roughly 47 %) of area still dependenton rainfall which is erratic and seasonal
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Climate change can wreck havoc on agriculturalproductivity
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Since the green revolution, agricultural productivity hasmore or less remained stagnant
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Agricultural subsidies like free power have resulted inover pumping of ground water
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Ground water has receded at an alarming rate of about1 foot/year for the past decade
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