Advantages of Irrigation

Irrigation

• Like we all need water, plants also need water for their growth and development.
• Plants absorb water from the soil through roots. While absorbing, plants take all the nutrients and fertilizers supplied along with the water.
• Due to continuous evaporation from the surface, the amount of water present in the soil decreases.
• Since plants can not take water from lower depths, farmers supply water to the crop plants at different intervals depending on the need.
• The requirement of water differs from crop to crop and also from season to season. Some crops like paddy require the presence of water in the field during transplantation unlike other crops like cotton, gram and wheat.

"The process of supplying water to crop plants at different intervals is called irrigation."

Advantages of Irrigation

• Fields are irrigated before ploughing because water makes the soil soft and ploughing becomes easier.
• Water in the field helps to provide sufficient moisture for the germination of seeds.
• For healthy growth of crop and to get good produce from the plants, the crops must be irrigated.
• Crops are protected from hot air current and frost in the irrigation fields. 

Sources of irrigation

Water is taken from different sources like rivers, tube wells, open well, canal, reservoir of dams etc. for irrigation of crop fields. Farmers use different methods to lift water depending up on the availability of water sources.

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