• M. Suvetha
• Dr. R. Maniyosai
• G. Mahalakshmi

India is pre -eminently an agricultural country. Seventy five percent of her people residing in rural areas are indirectly dependent an agriculture which contributed about 31% percent to GDP as per world development report in the year 1993. Though its contribution to GDP has declined from 45 % percent in1970 31% percent by 2001. It still forms the hub of India’s economy The programs and performance of the industrial sector is heavily decedent on supply of agriculture raw martial and of course food products. Agriculture is by for the most important of the words economic activities. It uses about one third of the total land surface and employs about 45 % percent of the working population of the world.The cropping pattern varies due to the demographic, social and economic factors also. Since the study area is one of the intensive farming areas of the Indian Sub continent it is essential to under stand the cropping pattern in study area. The cropping pattern of Karur district is analyzed for three points of time namely 1999-2000, 2005-2006 and 2010-2011. Karur District is the centrally located in Tamilnadu state, it is bounded on the north by Namakkal district on the east by Tiruchirappalli, south by Sivagangai, and district, west by Didigul district. Data collection is the important secondary data are collected from various departments. The data regarding area under various crops in the study area are collected from the Joint Director of Agriculture, Karur. Primary data should be in preparing Questionnaire method, to collect the information’s about farmer’s health problems and their socio economic status. To analyse the differentiation in various crop cultivation in during the periods (1999-2000, 2010-2011) and Various Source of irrigation Karur district. Irrigation plays an important role in Agriculture. The analysis of rainfall distribution has shown that the rainfall is in adequate and highly in consistent. Millets a low water requiring crop is a food crop in drier area. During the year 1999-2000 millets 39.8 % percentage accounted for above 44090, when it has increased in 2005-2006, 41.5 % percentage total gross sown area in study area. During the year 2010-2011 millets production has declined.Sugar cane is a major cash crop for the agro based sugar processing industry. The study area during the years 1999-2000 to 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 it could be stated that the cropped area under sugar cane cultivation has decreased in the study area. Gingelly an oil seed and cash crop with a high market value is gaining significance in the recent years. The low yield per hectare has 28.2in 5725 hectares during the year2010-2011.

Key Words: Agriculture, Crop, Monsoon and Irrigation.

"AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE WITH WATER SOURCES IN KARUR DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.466-472, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812368.pdf

"AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE WITH WATER SOURCES IN KARUR DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp466-472, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812368.pdf