Medium Irrigation Projects In Karnataka A Public Finance Perspective

Abstract

Survival of any living being depends on the availability of food in adequate quantity and newlinequality, with the settled life human beings started producing the food grains instead of newlinegathering newline newlineThe proportion of irrigated area in the gross cropped area was 24% before independence the same proportion had reduced to 19% in the independent India, with the result India was under acute shortage of food grains. 1 Hence modernization of agriculture through irrigation, intensive cultivation use of hybrid verity of seeds, use of chemical fertilizer and green revolution was followed. Agriculture create demand for industrial goods in addition to providing raw material for industries. newline