INDIA: WATER RESOURCES. — Social Science STD 10 — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10Social ScienceINDIA: WATER RESOURCES.3 Marks
Question
Write about the distribution of irrigation.
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Answer
After the Independence, India’s area under irrigation has increased four times. Coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh, delta regions of Godavari and Krishna rivers, Mahanadi delta in Odisha, Kaveri delta in Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, etc. are regions which are intensively irrigated. In India, the area under irrigation and irrigation facilities greatly vary from state to state. Today, about $38\%$ of net sown area is under irrigation.
Out of the total sown area of Mizoram, only $7.34\%$ area is under irrigation whereas in case of Punjab it is $90.8\%$. A vast difference lies between the total area under irrigation in respect to the total sown area sown. It is worth mentioning that more than $40\%$ area of the total area sown in under irrigation in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and Manipur.
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