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Irrigation in India: The Need for Irrigation and Different Kinds of Irrigation Works
The Need for Irrigation
Agriculture in India has been called a gamble in the monsoon for variations in the rainfall affect it, often with very serious consequences. There must be rains, sufficient yet not excessive, and, at the same time well distributed over the land. Irregular or untimely or excessive rainfall as well as scarcity or failure means a partial or complete failure of crops. Certain parts of India like Sind, Rajputana and the South West Punjab are practically rainless, while, in the Deccan, it is precarious and ill distributed and leads to chronic drought. Irrigation, therefore, becomes necessary as the only means of cultivating certain areas ...
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