09 May Adoption of technology for water conservation – A case study on drip irrigation system
जल संरक्षण के लिए प्रौद्योगिकी को अपनाना - ड्रिप सिंचाई प्रणाली पर एक केस स्टडी Irrigation plays an important role in harvesting the desirable level of yield and supplementing the use efficiency of other inputs. Globally, irrigation water is becoming highly scarce due to over exploitation of water bodies for meeting the demand of increasing population. India, despite having the largest area under irrigation in the world, it suffers from severe shortage of water. The coverage of irrigation is about 47 percent of the gross cropped area. The main reason for low coverage under irrigation is the low water use efficiency of existing conventional method of irrigations like flooding, which is widely practiced...