| Irrigation is essentially the artificial application of water to overcome deficiencies in rainfall for growing crops (cantor 167). It encourages the farmer to adopt scientific techniques and go for more intensive cropping there by creating new opportunities for gainful employment. The purpose of this article is to highlight the changes in agriculture in the context of irrigation at micro level during 1998-99 and 2010-11. Wells and canal are the sources of irrigation in the village of which 18.14% and 3.10% of cultivated area is irrigated by wells and canal respectively. It is noticed that the net sown area which is increased by 1.30% during the period of investigation. Out of the total cropped area, about 80.61% of cultivated area was under food crops in 1998-99, as against 75.97% in the year 2010-11 most of the cultivated land is occupied by cash crops. The percentage of cropped area under jowar has decreased in the village. Whereas cultivated area under wheat, sugarcane and gram are registered increase in the period under study. Among the cereal crops wheat and jowar are most important irrigated crops, which share 24.88% and 29.40% of cultivated area respectively. There is marked tremendous change in per hectare yield of crops. whereas per hectare yield of jowar was marked 975 kg, wheat 1054 kg, Bajara 491 kg, gram 42 kg, in 1998-99 as against 1401 kg/hect, 1675 kg/hect, 675 kg/ hect, 533 kg/hect respectively in the year 2010-11. |