THE GROWTH OF IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT IN NIZAMABAD,TELANGANA

Abstract

Irrigation is the application of water to soil artificially for the aim of grain production. Scientific irrigation water management provides the best protection against climatic disasters and weather-induced changes in overall food output. As a result, irrigation policies and programs are critical in an agriculture-oriented economy, helping to promote food production.

It is a well-known fact that irrigation provides several economic and societal benefits. Mankind has lived due to the availability of water and its effective modes of exploitation. Efficient irrigation water distribution control is expected to help to increasing agricultural production by allowing planting at the appropriate time, prolonging the effective cropping season, and allowing a changeover to high productivity of high tale crops. As a result, economic growth requires an understanding of irrigation, both in terms of method and structural process.

Telangana was the main area of the princely kingdom of Hyderabad from 1724 until 1956. Under the pressure and direction of British suzerain, the Nezam of Hyderabad and his government began to take an interest in irrigation as a means of preventing and alleviating famine in the 1870s.

The main sources of government revenue were taxes on non-irrigated and irrigated land (the latter at a far higher rate). While these levies consumed a significant portion of the crop's value, irrigation development formed the foundation of effective revenue and fiscal policy. The state of Hyderabad had a substantially higher