Water Management in Horticultural Crops

Advantages of irrigation

Advantages of irrigation can be direct as well as indirect.
I.Direct Benefits

• The grower has many choices of crops and varieties and can go for multiple cropping for cultivation
• Crop plants respond to fertilizer and other inputs and there by productivity is high.
• Quality of the crop is improved.
• Higher economic return and employment opportunities. It makes economy drought proof.
• Development of pisciculture and afforestation. Plantation is raised along the banks of canals and field boundaries.
• Domestic water supply, hydel power generation at dam site and means of transport where navigation is possible.
• Prevention of damage through flood.
II.Indirect Benefits

• Increase in gross domestic product of the country, revenue, employment, land value, higher wages to farm labour, agro-based industries and groundwater storage.
• General development of other sectors and development of the country