Irrigation

Irrigation 

 An artifical application of water to the land for agriculture and cultivation is called irrigation or the process of the supply of water to land or crops to help growth is irrigation. 

 Advantages of Irrigation 

• insufficient and uncertain rainfall negatively affect agriculture. It helps in the growth of crop production in low rainfall. 
• It helps to eliminate food scarcity. 
• It helps to generate new jobs in agricultural field. 
• It helps to increase in the fertility of land.
•  It helps in the economic development of farmer. 
• All cultivated land are utilized which helps to reduce the dependency of crops to other country. 

Disadvantages of irrigation 

• Water logging. 
• Salinity and alkalinity of land. 
• Ground water pollution. 
• Excess irrigation can cause landslide. 
• Outbreak of harmful diseases like malaria can occur. 
• Excess use of groundwater for irrigation can occurs the vicinity of the space which can bring disasters. 
• Environmental and natural condition of river can be disturbed.