Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development

Water is becoming increasing scare which limits agricultural development not only India but also in many parts of the world. The present study was undertaken to assess the water quality, knowledge level, adoption and constraints to adopt rcommended technologies for irrigation in Bathinda district of Punjab. Out of total samples analyzed only 9.6 per cent water was found fit for irrigation in all conditions. Whereas 51 per cent water is suitable for coarse textured soils and salt tolerant crop with periodic monitoring of salt and is suitable for irrigation after mixing with canal water. Nearly 39.4 per cent water was observed as poor quality and is unsuitable for irrigation. It was reported that 78.82 per cent farmers had high level of knowledge followed by 15.30 and 5.88 per cent farmer’s with moderate and low level of knowledge. More no of farmers had high level (71.76%) of adoption followed by moderate (18.82%) and low (9.42%) level. It may be seen that distribution of rain as per requirements was reported as major constraint with rank 1(mean score-3.99) followed by non-availability of good quality canal water for irrigation/ scarcity of water/ sufficiency of fresh water/ frequency of water supply (mean score-3.86) and lack of awareness about climate change (mean score-3.82).