Well and Tube Well irrigation is the most popular irrigation system in India. The first tube well was dug in 1930 in Uttar Pradesh. Today there are more than 50 lakh tube wells operating in different ...

Prof MG Chandrakanth, Retired Director, ISEC, Bengaluru, did doctoral studies in Agricultural Economics from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and post doctoral studies in ...

Irrigated agriculture is the planet's largest consumer of freshwater and ultimately produces more than 40% of food worldwide. Yet the exact amounts of water actually being used in irrigation remains ...