Assessing the different sources of irrigation in Hassan district

The transformation in the cropping pattern of agriculture in Hassan district has been from extensive to intensive use of land owes largely to the extension of irrigational facilities. Prior to irrigation, the district was facing rainfall vagaries since the last few decades. The changes owe a great deal to variety of infrastructural developments and increase inputs in general and extensive and intensive irrigational role in particular. The current research attempts to study the Different Sources of Irrigation in Hassan District. Hassan district has different sources of such as, irrigation well, canal, lift, tube well irrigation & others. Important crops are Maize, Potato, Sugar cane, Horticultural and Paddy account for a major share of cropping of land under cultivation in the district. With the advent of irrigation, the shares of commercial crops have increased in total cultivated area of the district. The traditional subsistence agricultural structure of the study region appears to collapse or is in the process of transformation into market oriented, semi-commercialized pattern.