PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF IRRIGATION ON CROPPING INTENSITY IN MANIPUR

K. SUJATHA¹*, B. BHATTACHARYYA², D.Y. CHIPHANG^3
1Department of Agricultural Statistics, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741252, West Bengal, India
²Department of Agricultural Statistics, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741252, West Bengal, India
³Department of Agricultural Statistics, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741252, West Bengal, India
* Corresponding Author : sujathakuppan@gmail.com

Received : 30-08-2019     Accepted : 26-09-2019     Published : 30-09-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 18       Pages : 9042 - 9044
Int J Agr Sci 11.18 (2019):9042-9044

Keywords : Irrigation, Cropping intensity, CGR, Coefficient of variation, Simple linear regression
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agricultural Statistics, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741252, West Bengal, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Irrigation is a very important non-physical input in agriculture as the crop production of an area largely depends on the existing irrigation facility. Crop production can be amplified from boosting the arable land, cropping intensity and yield per unit area of cropped land. Hence an attempt has been made in this paper to analyse district wise performance in the intensity of cropping in Manipur and the impact of irrigation on cropping intensity. The data is taken from various issues of Statistical Abstracts of Manipur for the period 1990 to 2017. Appropriate statistical tools i.e. average; compound growth rate, coefficient of variation and simple linear regression are used for the analysis of data. Variations were found among the districts in terms of cropping intensity; compound growth rate (CGR) for cropping intensity is higher in Bishnupur, Ukhrul, Chandel and Senapati, medium in Imphal West, Thoubal and Churachandpur and Imphal East and Tamenglon have a low level. The growth rate of cropping intensity for the overall state is only 1.1 and the total Coefficient of Variation in cropping intensity was 17.94 % which reveals that there exists variation in the net sown area and total cropped area in Manipur.

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