Irrigation Potential And Transformation Of Agriculture

There is a general impression that the agriculture sector has not been doing well that holds good for the country as a whole and more prominently for any part of the North East India (NEI). Considering the importance of agricultural development, the nation has been initiating a plethora of policies and strategies under the purview of green revolution since a couple of decades aiming at raising yield rates of agricultural produce that to be equipped with water-seed-fertilizer-pesticide-technology approach. Such approach was considered facilitating source for agricultural mechanization thereby raising yield rates. The ever-growing population and ever-declining agricultural holdings posed to restrict the transformation of agriculture sector for fostering economic development that resulted emerging of this approach. It is undenying and has been established that irrigation is the pre-condition for transforming agriculture through such approach whereby yield rates can be raised manifold.However, the performance of agriculture is not being found up to the mark in general, even in particular to the areas where government has created irrigation facilities. Such phenomenon gives rise to the need of assessing irrigation potential created and search the reasons behind static condition of agriculture particularly in irrigated areas. To induct such issue in grassroots, a micro level study is adopted. Therefore, a study entitled 'Irrigation Potential and Transformation of Agriculture: A Case Study of Deosila Minor Irrigation Project of Goalpara District, Assam' is adopted.The paper seeks to assess the irrigation potential created, its functioning and to search the restricting factors for farm mechanization on the basis of secondary and primary information.