How has irrigation changed the cropping pattern in many regions of India.
(1) Farmers shift to water intensive and commercial crops.
(2) This leads to Stalinization of the soil.
(3) This has transformed the social landscape and increasing gap between richer land owners and landless poor.
Irrigation has changed the cropping pattern of many regions, due to the construction of dams in the following ways :
(i) The farmers have shifted water-intensive and commercial crops.
(ii) It has changed the ecology by salinisation of the soil.
(iii) It has increased the social gaps between the rich land owners and the landless poor.