Socio-economic Impact of Farm Ponds through Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) in Bikaner District of Rajasthan
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2021
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College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University
Abstract
Indian agriculture is gambler of Indian mansoon, majority of the
crops survives on the availability of rain water but as we all know
mansoon is discreate in all over the country. Water is an essential and
precious resource upon which our ecosystems and agricultural
production depend. However, water a natural resource of the world
constitutes, 1,384 million cubic kilometers of which around 97.39 per
cent (i.e. 1,348 million cubic meters) of water is in the oceans, which is
salty in nature. Another 2.61 percent (i.e. 36 million cubic meters) is
fresh water of this 77.23 per cent (27.82 million cubic meters) is in the
polar ice caps, icebergs and glaciers. Only small fraction of water
resources (0.59 % or 8.2 million cubic meters) of the earth present on
the ground, lakes, rivers, and atmosphere and are useful to mankind.
Whereas, more than 99 percent of water present on the earth is not
useful to mankind. Water resources in India include precipitation,
surface and groundwater storage and hydropower potential. India‟s
average precipitation is 1,170 millimeters (46 inch) per year, or about
1,720 cubic meters (61,000 cubic feet) of fresh water per person every
year. India accounts for 18 per cent world population and about 4 per
cent of the world‟s water resources (Deshmukh, 2018).