Year: 2025 | Month: September | Volume 70 | Issue 3
Can Drip Irrigation Method Doubling the Farmers Income? Evidence of Banana Crop Cultivation from Tamil Nadu
N. Devika
R. Suresh
DOI:10.46852/0424-2513.3.2025.13
Abstract:
India is one of the world’s highest producers in agricultural products, including food grains, fruits, vegetables and milk etc. Irrigation contributes the major role in the sustainable agricultural growth in India. The inadequate of future water storage in addition to the raising demand for consumption of water for various purposes, this situation has become urgent need to adopt new irrigation technology for avoid the water scarcity in the future. One such a method introducing in water management is drip method irrigation.
Numbers of studies are available related to use of farm level survey data all over the state have confirmed that the saving of water consumption of different horticultural crops cultivated under drip irrigated method is highly significant as contrast to conventional irrigated method. However, many studies are not discussed detail on fruit banana cultivation in farm survey data particularly in the Indian circumstances. As a result of previous study, a special effort made in this analysis to bridge this space using farm survey data collected from different villages in Sivagangai district of Tamil Nadu State.
Highlights
- Evidence from South India shows that water saving due to the adoption of drip method of irrigation in banana crop is estimated to be 52 percent over the flood irrigated banana crop. Productivity gain due to drip irrigation in Banana is 8.11 percent over the flood irrigated Banana crop.
- The benefit-cost ratio drip method of irrigation in Banana crop is 24.33 percent with subsidy and 10.58 percent without subsidy. Evidence from South India suggests that drip irrigation can increase farm profits and income.
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