The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the impact of effective water management in rainfed crop cultivation as part of climate smart agriculture (CSA) in the Dry Zone. The hypothesis is that providing irrigation during the gap time reduces farmers' risks of crop failure and enables farmers to invest in cash crops.
The objective is to assess the scope of risk mitigation in crop production and obtain information of actual benefits and dis‐benefits of using pumped water in different commercially important crop cultivations during the monsoon season. It is expected that the cost‐benefit analysis and other relevant information related to the use of pumped water in the identified commercial crops will inform and enable the choice of cultivation practices/cropping patterns and the overall approach to the use of irrigation by farmers in the Dry Zone.
