{"id":1666,"date":"2018-06-06T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:00:21","slug":"mind-boggling-facts-about-water-use-in-indian-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/mind-boggling-facts-about-water-use-in-indian-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-boggling facts about Water-use In Indian Agriculture!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, about 78% of the freshwater supplies are used for irrigation in agriculture despite the fact that only 47% of the cultivated area is irrigated! Yes, 78%! It\u2019s just remaining 22% water supply that fulfills India\u2019s other water needs! 1 k.g of rice grown in states like Punjab &amp; Haryana needs about 5000 litres of water! 1 k.g of Sugar produced in Maharashtra needs about 2000 litres of water! And yeah\u2026 let\u2019s make it clear that we haven\u2019t made a typo. It\u2019s 5K &amp; 2k litres respectively! Sugarcane in Maharashtra which occupied only 4% of the state cropped area consumes about 66% of the irrigation water! Isn\u2019t it water inequality? Do let us know what you think of it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JiggvJ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven Decades of Independent India<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Photo Thanks: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/irrigation-inject-water-sprinkler-2402568\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, about 78% of the freshwater supplies are used for irrigation in agriculture despite the fact that only 47% of the cultivated area is irrigated! Yes, 78%! It\u2019s just remaining 22% water supply that fulfills India\u2019s other water needs! 1 k.g of rice grown in states like Punjab &amp; Haryana needs about 5000 litres&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,4],"tags":[301,500,495,302,74,444,501,491,502,217],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mind-boggling-facts-about-Water-use-In-Indian-Agriculture-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=640%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-qS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}