• Dr. Pooja Rana

India with its agro-based economy is largely dependent on monsoonal rainfall for its economic development. Hence, its progress and economic well being depend mostly on monsoon spell. The avaibility of irrigation facility determines the success of all programmes oriented towards agricultural development. Thus irrigation forms important component of current strategy means for boosting agricultural production (Soundarum, 1991). Similarly the necessities of developed and adequate irrigation facilities become highly in Punjab because here rainfall is unreliable and inadequate in both space and time. Williamson (1925) rightly stated that in areas where if co-efficient of variability in annual rainfall exceeds 20 per cent than irrigation becomes pre-requisite for successful crop farming. It is true in case of Punjab, where co-efficient of variability in annual rain fall ranges between 22 to 65 per cent. Changes in irrigation spark the changes in land use pattern because with increased irrigation facilities farmers will bring more land under cultivation and Net Sown Area that will led the reclamation of cultivable waste, low area under fallow and current fallow, more area under non-agricultural uses due to infrastructure, urbanization, industrialization, etc. Thus there would be great upheaval in land use categories.

irrigation & Land use pattern

"Extent of Irrigation and Changes in Land Use Pattern: 1965-66 to 2010-11", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.461-467, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904066.pdf

"Extent of Irrigation and Changes in Land Use Pattern: 1965-66 to 2010-11", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp461-467, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904066.pdf