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Explain any two consequences of changing crop pattern due to irrigation.

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(1) The population of India is growing rapidly and demands its food security the government introduced schemes to the farmers to grow food crops twice or thrice a year.  Earlier, the farmers depended on rainfall in the monsoon season for their yearly productive With failure in rain, they used to suffer a lot. Now-a-days farmers can take loan and use pumps to irrigate their land. Over and over irrigation to get good returns and using of fertilizers to retain the soil fertility, they, in turn, make the land exhausted and thus, the ultimately production is suffering.

(2) On the other hand on the event of drawing more and more water from the underground sources, the water table is also getting dried up. The fertilizer mixed water contaminates the canals and other water bodies.



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