Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Neeta Deokate, AV Khandre, AR Wahekar and B Saxena

Abstract:
The study entitled “Impact of Wan irrigation project on agriculture and socio-economic development of beneficiary farmers” was frame and conducted in Akola and Buldhana district of Maharashtra State at Wan irrigation project. Wan irrigation project is one of the major irrigation project in Vidarbha sanctioned by Government of Maharashtra in the year 1979 and completed in the year 2001-02. It was started functioning from 2005. It is therefore, in order to know the benefits from this irrigation to the beneficiary farmers. In the study, the total of 300 respondents were the beneficiaries of head, middle and tail reach of wan irrigation project. The major constraints expressed by the majority of the beneficiary farmers in head, middle and tail reach portion were crop damaged due to excess flow of water (65.00%), increase in salinity of soil due to continuous leakage of water in field (50.00%), no proper maintenance of major and minor distributaries and canal water not reach at the tail portion.