A study on constraints faced and suggestions expressed by the farmers on practicing groundwater conservation practices

Abstract

Water is the fundamental and most needed resource to every organism on the earth. Being a community resource as well, water source needs to manage as a shared pool under public trust to achieve food security, extend livelihood and ensure equitable and sustainable development for the long run sustenance of the ecosystem. change in the trend of extraction and usage of borewells is due to an increase in groundwater utilization of the state from 65% to 70% for various purposes. , central and state had put efforts to regulate groundwater use by individual Well owners. Despite these initiatives from the government, there is still availability of efficient groundwater use by farmers showed little success. Hence. In this regard, the research problem to elicit constraints and seek suggestions for improving adoption of groundwater conservation practice was taken up. The results of the study reveal that the constraints faced by the farmers in adopting groundwater conservation practices among that the institutional supply constraints ranked first with a percentage of 76.38 followed by technical (74.44%) constraints second, socio-economic (72.77%) constraints third, situational (69.44%) constraints fourth, and the last financial (63.51%) constraints at fifth place. The majority of marginal farmers have given suggestion that Govt. should come up with initiatives keeping in view of demand side of groundwater (90.00%), Subsidies on electricity need to be cut short and encourage on use of solar pump sets (90.00%), Provision of sufficient financial assistance for taking up water conservation structures (80.00%) and Tank irrigation needs more concentration (76.67%).