Photovoltaic Water Pumping Irrigation System for Diversified Agriculture in Haryana

The study was conducted in purposively selected Hisar, Rohtak and Jhajjar districts of Haryana state with selected 61, 47 and 33 numbers of PWPS adopted farmers from each district, respectively and an equal number of non beneficiaries adjoining to the beneficiaries' farm were also selected. In this way a total number of 282 respondents i.e. 141 beneficiaries and 141 non-beneficiaries were included in the sample for the study. Due to adoption of PWPS at farmers' field, during the Rabi season the maximum decrease in area (4.41%) was observed in wheat crop. The area under barseem, mustard and barley was decreased to 3.31, 2.48 and 0.67 per cent, respectively. Whereas, the area under vegetables (9.06%) and horticulture (1.82%) was increased. The same trend were also observed during the Kharif season as the area under traditional crop namely cotton, rice and bajra was decreased up to 9.38,1.53 and 1.26 per cent, respectively. However, the area under vegetable (6.63%), horticulture (2.66%), sugarcane (1.91%) and jawar (0.97%) was increased due to adoption of PWPS.