Well and Tube Well irrigation is the most popular irrigation system in India. The first tube well was dug in 1930 in Uttar Pradesh. Today there are more than 50 lakh tube wells operating in different ...

Prof MG Chandrakanth, Retired Director, ISEC, Bengaluru, did doctoral studies in Agricultural Economics from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and post doctoral studies in ...

Irrigated agriculture is the planet's largest consumer of freshwater and ultimately produces more than 40% of food worldwide. Yet the exact amounts of water actually being used in irrigation remains ...

With the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa government finding it difficult to foot the growing bill of its irrigation tube-wells, the farmers depending on this source for water are suffering across the province.

There was a packed house at the Coles Building as the standing committee on agriculture continued to discuss the lifting of the moratorium on high-capacity irrigation wells. Representatives from both ...

In 14 years (2001-02 to 2014-15), net irrigation in India increased just 20 per cent, with an alarming trend of massive groundwater extraction. Per data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme ...

Dodoma. The National Irrigation Commission (NIRC) has launched a rural irrigation programme that has seen the drilling of 390 ...