ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Climate-Smart Food Systems
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1654597
This article is part of the Research TopicBuilding Resilience Through Sustainability: Innovative Strategies In Agricultural SystemsView all 17 articles
Resiliency of regional groundwater through enhanced conveyance and application efficiencies of irrigation water
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- 1ICAR - Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
- 2ICAR - Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
- 3ICAR - Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar, India
- 4Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth College of Community Science - Parbhani, Parbhani, India
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Groundwater depletion is a significant big sustainability challenge at Rasoolpur jatan Jatan village of Muzaffarnagar district, India. This study was conducted in a farmer's field to enhance the conveyance and application efficiency of irrigation water through various water management technologies. Modeling was done to simulate the future groundwater behavior and give the alternate course of management options for sustainable groundwater use strategy. Sugarcane is the major crop in the study area, and irrigation is being done through earthen field channels. If irrigation is given at 60% and 65% application efficiency through earthen field channels, then the groundwater table would decline at 0.57 m/yr and 0.39 m/yr. To avoid conveyance losses; pipe distribution network was used with 79 % application efficiency, in. In this case groundwater table would rise by 0.05 m/yr and when irrigation was given through a drip system with Ea = 90%, groundwater table would rise by 0.27 m/yr. The groundwater levels projected for 2030 under four scenarios are 213.84 m, 217.20 m, 225.39 m, and 229.37 m, respectively. RSimulated results suggested that the declining trend of groundwater could be arrested to a greater extent in the study area by enhancing the efficiency of irrigation water. It is possible by adopting a modern irrigation methods (drip and sprinkler irrigation system. ) or rReplacingduce 50% the sugarcane area with pulses and oil-seed can be a another option to arrest the declining water table. Suggested crops have which have high economic value and less water requirement. so that the Thus economy of the farmers will not be affected by adopting new technologies.
Keywords: sustainability, Groundwater, Irrigation efficiencies, Open channel, pipe distribution network, dripirrigation
Received: 26 Jun 2025; Accepted: 02 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Manoj Kumar, ICAR - Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
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