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Volume : II, Issue : VI, July - 2012 Intensive Irrigation Practices & Groundwater Depletion In Seven Selected Blocks In The Rarh (west Of The Bhagirathi) In Murshidabad West Bengal Noorjahan Khatoon and Samaresh Mondal Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The district of Murshidabad is highly potential for agriculture and developed with crop rating more than 200% .Out of total agricultural land about 70% yields 3 crops
annually and the rest single crop . Population growth rate is very fast is (4% annually).
Irrigation in the study area is almost wholly groundwater based. The paper is mainly
concerned with the groundwater depletion following the Green Revolution in the
western part of the Bhagirathi of the district. The people living in the area were simply
driven by dire necessity of making up the scarcity of food crops. Following the Green
Revolution, introduction of high yielding varieties of dwarf species brought about an
abrupt change in crop pattern entailing an environmentally adverse impact on the land
& water resources. The ground water condition has substantially deteriorated for the
last 30 years. Both pre & post monsoon water levels have gone down by 1m to 5m in an
average. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Noorjahan Khatoon and Samaresh Mondal, (2012). Intensive Irrigation Practices & Groundwater Depletion In Seven Selected Blocks In The Rarh (west Of The Bhagirathi) In Murshidabad West Bengal. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VI, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1129.pdf References : - Misra A .K (1989): Hydrology and groundwater resources of MSD, West Bengal, CGWB.
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