• Sheetla Prasad Sharma
• Arvind Singh Yadav
• D. C. Pandey

Agriculture is the mainstay of people all over the world from time immemorial. Largest part of population for its subsistence and livelihood depends on agriculture and allied activities. Water is the most essential component in sustaining agriculture and provide base to the modern farm activities and processes. Progress of agriculture; crop and livestock production profoundly depend on the effectual and regular availability of water for irrigation. Production of crops, cropping pattern, crop productivity, crop commercialization and livestock in any area is determined by the water resource available in that particular area. Water resource rich areas in the world are also rich in crop production qualitatively as well as quantitatively; promote food security to the masses. Present paper investigates the water resource viz. ground and surface water available in Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, changing scenario of water use in agriculture and other activities, scarcity, depletion and degradation of water resources in the district with its impacts on agriculture and food security.

Agriculture, Food Security, Modern Farm Activities, Subsistence and Livelihood, Water Resource.

"An Appraisal of Water Resource and Irrigational Status of Ambedkar Nagar District in Uttar Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.436-443, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904N60.pdf

"An Appraisal of Water Resource and Irrigational Status of Ambedkar Nagar District in Uttar Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp436-443, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904N60.pdf