what is irrigation?
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Irrigation is the process of applying controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals. Irrigation helps to grow agricultural crops, maintain landscapes, and revegetate disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of less than average rainfall.
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Irrigation refers to the artificial application of water from rivers, canals, wells, tanks and other artificial projects to the fields for the purpose of cultivation and other agricultural activities.
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In India, the economic significance of irrigation is to reduce, over dependence on monsoons, increase agricultural productivity, bring more land under cultivation, reduce instability in output levels, control floods and prevent droughts and so many other reasons.
Need for irrigation is because, rainfall in India is sporadic and uneven. There are some parts of the country that will receive heavy rainfall and some other which will receive scanty rainfall. Every crop has a different water requirement and for all these reasons, irrigation is important.
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