Can Drip Irrigation Method Doubling the Farmers Income? Evidence of Banana Crop Cultivation from Tamil Nadu

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. The result of analysis clearly suggests that the consumption of water have been reduced due to the adoption of drip irrigated method in Banana crop is evaluated to be 52% higher than the conventional irrigation of Banana crop cultivation. Increased Productivity due to drip irrigated method in Banana crop cultivation is 8.11% higher than the conventional irrigation of Banana crop cultivation. The BCR drip irrigated method in Banana crop cultivation is 24.33 percent with subsidy and 10.58 percent without subsidy. The study has proved from the use of drip irrigated method contributes to reduce water consumption, decrease the cost of banana crop cultivation and raise the banana crop yield in contrast to conventional irrigation in Sivagangai district from Tamil Nadu State. The field survey study suggested that most of the farmers are not aware of the drip technology is useful for cultivating various horticultural crops. Therefore, needs to put some additional efforts to raise the use of drip irrigated method in all suitable crops to conserve water and to raise the performance of agriculture.