Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India

Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India

In Rao, M. S.; Khobragade, S.; Kumar, B.; Singh, R. D. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Water Availability and Management in Punjab (WAMIP-2010), Chandigarh, India, 13-15 December 2010. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology

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Main Authors: Amarasinghe, Upali A., Sharma, Bharat R., Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
Format: Conference Paper biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:groundwater depletion, assessment, groundwater irrigation, water use, agricultural production, diversification, rice, wheat, feed crops, milk production, water footprint, case studies,
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38367
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spelling dig-cgspace-10568-383672023-09-23T17:51:47Z Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India Amarasinghe, Upali A. Sharma, Bharat R. Smakhtin, Vladimir U. groundwater depletion assessment groundwater irrigation water use agricultural production diversification rice wheat feed crops milk production water footprint case studies In Rao, M. S.; Khobragade, S.; Kumar, B.; Singh, R. D. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Water Availability and Management in Punjab (WAMIP-2010), Chandigarh, India, 13-15 December 2010. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology This paper assesses water depletion of agricultural production in the Moga district of the State of Punjab. It particularly focuses on growth in agricultural production and stress on water resources induced by groundwater irrigation. Rice, wheat and forage crops comprise more than 99% of the annual cropped area in Moga. Groundwater contribution to the total annual consumptive water use (CWU) - 94% of 1,461 million m3 - is so large that groundwater embedded in the production surpluses of rice, wheat and milk alone exceeds the estimated groundwater recharge in the District. The groundwater CWU in rice production is 1.7 to 2 times higher than those of milk and wheat, and financial value of the output of rice-wheat-milk production system is 10 and 27% lower than that of the milk-wheat and milk-only production systems respectively. thus, the intensification of dairy production with a calculated reduction in rice area and increase in green fodder area is the most expedient way of reducing water depletion. It can not only bring the groundwater depletion to sustainable limits, but also increase the value of total agriculture production, while producing a surplus of rice for export. The optimum combination is to change annual cropping pattern of rice, wheat and fodder crops to 62, 90 and 42% of the net irrigated area from the present level of about 90, 90 and 20% respectively, and double the lactating dairy animals to 8 per 6 ha of land. 2010 2014-06-13T11:41:32Z 2014-06-13T11:41:32Z Conference Paper Amarasinghe, Upali; Sharma, Bharat R.; Smakhtin, Vladimir. 2010. Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India. In Rao, M. S.; Khobragade, S.; Kumar, B.; Singh, R. D. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Water Availability and Management in Punjab (WAMIP-2010), Chandigarh, India, 13-15 December 2010. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology. pp.157-171. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38367 en Limited Access p. 157-171
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rice
wheat
feed crops
milk production
water footprint
case studies
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feed crops
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water footprint
case studies
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wheat
feed crops
milk production
water footprint
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groundwater depletion
assessment
groundwater irrigation
water use
agricultural production
diversification
rice
wheat
feed crops
milk production
water footprint
case studies
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
Sharma, Bharat R.
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India
description In Rao, M. S.; Khobragade, S.; Kumar, B.; Singh, R. D. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Water Availability and Management in Punjab (WAMIP-2010), Chandigarh, India, 13-15 December 2010. Roorkee, India: National Institute of Hydrology
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assessment
groundwater irrigation
water use
agricultural production
diversification
rice
wheat
feed crops
milk production
water footprint
case studies
author Amarasinghe, Upali A.
Sharma, Bharat R.
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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title Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India
title_short Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India
title_full Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India
title_fullStr Agriculture diversification for sustainable groundwater use: a case study in the Moga District of Punjab, India
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