Name: Daljit kaur,Krishna kaushik
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 149-159

Irrigation has been considered to be one of the chief ingredients along with the high yielding varieties of seeds and fertilizers, necessary for ushering in new dimensions in agriculture. Besides, dominating rural landscape and the hard working nature of cultivators the availability of water resources is essential for the development of agrarian economy of the Haryana. Irrigation is available from various sources like river, canal, tubewells, well etc. in the study area. The main stress has been on tube well irrigation, which irrigates most of the cultivated area in the study region. The intensity of tube well irrigation has increased manifolds and come closer to 100 per cent in the study area. In study area the density of tube wells increases at a very fast rate 18.19 in 1990-91 per square kilometre to 44.04 per square kilometres in 2005-06. The extent of irrigation has increased from 53.44 per cent to 92.04 per cent over the year of 1970-71 to 2005-06 in the study area. The intensity of irrigation directly influences the intensity of cropping, cropping pattern and crop combination in the region. Improvements in the irrigation infrastructure have increased the net area sown and double the cropped area. The proposed paper will be based on block-wise secondary data collected from various offices and organizations of the districts of study area from 1970 to 2006.
Keywords: intensity of irrigation, aerable land, concentration of tubewells, cropping patten, crop combination