Abstract

In many places, irrigation plays a stabilizing role in agriculture by supplying necessary water and assisting to replace low-valued plants with better alternatives. In an area that experiences frequent floods during the summertime as a result of heavy rains and drought, irrigation enables them to take place. The main focuses of the paper is to assess the economic impact of tube-wells on the farmers, analyze the possibility of alternative farming techniques in view of soil degradation in affected areas. The result revelaed that there is significant difference between the cropping intensity before and after implementation of STW irrigation and STW irrigation leads to a statistically significant cropping intensity improvement in flood affected areas. There is a considerable shift in land area from other crops to HYV crops. The average cropping intensity is much higher 132.66 percent in the irrigated farm while it is only 106.66 percent in the non irrigated farm. The over all analysis regarding the impact of STW irrigation on the cropping intensity in the study area showed that irrigation water helps in expanding the cropping intensity in flood affected area

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