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 in India. Considering the limited water availability in future for irrigation and other uses, different management strategies have to be evaluated for efficient use of available water. In Indian agriculture, drip irrigation system is considered as one of the efficient management strategies for water conservation. Drip irrigation system saves water and fertilizer by supplying water and nutrients near the roots of plants, either at the soil surface (by surface drip irrigation system) or directly in the root zone (by sub-surface drip irrigation system) through a network of pipes, valves, laterals and drippers. An attempt was made to study the adoption level of drip...