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The scarcity of water or low rainfall often results in drought conditions. If farmers do not

use any irrigation methods and only rely on rainfalls, draught poses a serious threat to
the crops. Areas with light soils also tend to face drought-like conditions as soils cannot

retain water

Irrigation system

Our country is bestowed with large water and land resources with varied climatic
conditions. Under such circumstances, various types of irrigation systems have been

adopted to supply water to the agricultural lands. Some most used irrigation systems
are the following:

Wells: two types of wells are used for
irrigation:

• Tube-well: Tube-wells are tube-like
structures that are used to extract
underground water.

• Dug-Wells: Dug-wells are open wells
dug in the ground in order to extract

the underground water. Water from
dug-well and tube-well is both lifted by

using pumps.

Canals: A canal system is a network
created to move water from one source

of water such as a stream or reservoir.
The main canal is divided into branches

that spread by through the fields so that

water can be distributed everywhere