Bailout with white revolution or sink deeper?: groundwater depletion and impacts in the Moga District of Punjab, India

Upali A. Amarasinghe, Vladimir U. Smakhtin, Bharat R. Sharma and Nishadi Eriyagama

No 108672, IWMI Research Reports from International Water Management Institute

Abstract: Moga District in Punjab, India, is a microcosm of the twin story of irrigation-induced growth and stress. The groundwater consumptive water use in agriculture exceeds the recharge by a substantial margin. Rice production contributes to a major part of this difference. The groundwater depletion is so critical that diversifying agriculture is the only way forward for sustainable agricultural growth. Reducing the rice area and intensifying milk production will be a win-win situation for both the farmers and the area reeling with a groundwater crisis.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Production Economics; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 p.
Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/108672/files/RR138.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:iwmirr:108672

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.108672

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IWMI Research Reports from International Water Management Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().