CONTENTS
CHAPTER	PARTICULARS	PAGE NO.
	LIST OF TABLES
	LIST OF FIGURES
1	INTRODUCTION	1
2	REVIEW OF LITERATURE	11
	2.1 Significance of ground water irrigation	11
	2.2 Ground water management and agricultural development	14
	2.3 Relationship between ground water irrigation and cropping pattern	21
	2.4 Impact on ground water conservation	22
	2.5 Specific studies related with ground water irrigation	27
3	METHODOLOGY	37
	3.1 Selection of the study	37
	3.2 Collection of data and period of the study	43
	3.3 Statistical tools of analysis	44
	3.4 Limitations of the study	46
4	RESULTS AND DISCUSSION	47
	4.1. Socio-economic factors	47
	4.2. Groundwater irrigation and cropping pattern	50
	4.3. Relationship between size of the bore well,area of cultivation and family income	64
	4.4. Variance between family income, size of the bore well, depth of the bore well, cost incurred and area of cultivation	67
	4.5. Irrigation and cropping pattern in different season	77
5	SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION	82
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	ACKNOWLEDGMENT
	APPENDIX
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TABLE NO	LIST OF TABLES	PAGE NO.
I	Water requirements for different uses	2
II	Land requirements for different uses current and projection for 2020 and 2025	8
III	The rainfall received in the coimbatore district for the past ten years (1992-93) to (2002-03)	39
IV	Area of the land used for agricultural purposes (2003-2004)	41
V	Water pumps used for irrigation purpose in coimbatore	42
VI	Age of the head of the family	48
VII	Sex of the selected farmers	49
VIII	Family income per annum of the selected farmers	49
IX	Period during which major ground water resource is utilized	51
X	Types of crops and area of cultivation	53
XI	Usage of bore wells by the selected farmers	54
XII	Size of bore well used by the selected farmers	55
XIII	Depth of the bore well	56
XIV	Level of ground water found in the land	58
XV	The cost incurred in the bore well	59
XVI	Realization of the cost	60
XVII	Number of hour’s water pumped per day	61
XVIII	Change in cropping pattern	62
XIX	Years since chanchapng in the cropping pattern made by the farmers	63
XX	Relationship between family income per annum and the size of the bore well	64
XXI	The relationship between the area of cultivation and the size of bore well	66
XXII	The variance between the bore depth and annual income of the selected farmers	68
XXIII	The variance between bore depth and area of cultivation	70
XXIV	The variance between the size of the bore well and cost incurred per feet of the bore well	72
XXV	The variance between bore well depth and the size of the bore well	74
XXVI	The variance between numbers of hour’s water pumped per day and area of cultivation	75
XXVII	Crops cultivated in kariff season	78
XXVIII	Crops cultivated in rabi season	79
XXIX	Types of wells in theethipalayam village (2003–04)	80
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FIGURE NO	LIST OF FIGURES	PAGE NO.
I	Dheki pump	29
II	Rain fall of Coimbatore district (1993-2003)	40
III	Period during which major ground water resource is utilized	52
IV	Depth of the bore well	57
V	The variance between the bore depth and annual income of the selected farmers	69
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