How has irrigation changed the cropping pattern? What was it's impact on the social landscape?
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Due to irrigation facilities many farmers have shifted to water intensive and commercial crops. For example, Punjab has become major producer of rice inspite of low rainfall.
Impact on social landscape:- This transformation has widens the gap between rich and poor. The rich and mighty who can afford higher inputs has become more rich whereas the poor have failed to get benefit due to lack of capital.
Irrigation causes a lot of changes on the social landscape.
Excessive irrigation increases the salinization of the soil and also affects the fertility of soil. This leads to changes cropping patterns, hence in many regions farmers are shifting to water intensive and commercial crops.
Irrigation has transformed the social landscape to a large extent by widening the gap between the rich and the poor. For irrigation many multipurpose projects have been introduces. The aim of these projects is to manage the scarcity of water.
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