India's agriculture is facing acute water scarcity and a major reason for this is very low water use efficiency – only about 25 to 35 percent in conventional irrigation. Even the premium agriculture institution in India - ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute could not improve it. There are many reasons of poor water use efficiency in agriculture. One is farmers think, more water more crop. But except, in case of rice, production of each crop decreases if provided more water than required. In the enclosed technical paper in Hindi, I have tried to make understand why more water reduces the crop production. The farmers, cultivators, people attached with irrigated agriculture may take benefit of it.
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4moMy paper deals with the farmer's conception more water more production more profit.Except rice this concept is wrong, causing wastage of precious water, less production and deterioration of the soil, wastage of fertilizer.