Question

is it important to increase the area under irrigation

Answer 1

Yes, it is important to increase the area under irrigation.
As the population is increasing, more people need more food to eat but the land is same and farmers can't grow a very large amount of crops on the small piece of land.

So, the area under irrigation must be increased.

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Answer 2

Yes, it is important to increase the area under irrigation because day by day increasing industrialisation and urbanisation led to the decrease in irrigation area. Since, India is an agriculture based country and India have very beautiful monsoon pattern which can help for better production of crops therefore land under irrigation should be increased.