Optimal cropping pattern and water productivity: A case study of Punjab Canal. Hussain, I., Hussain, Z., Sial, M.H., Akram, W., and Hussain, M.F.Technical Paper in Special Session on Groundwater in the 5th Asian Regional Conference on INCID, December 9-11 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Groundwater management in alluvial areas. Why impacts of irrigation on agrarian dynamism and livelihoods are contrasting? Evidence from Eastern India States. Ghosh, S., Srivastava, S.K., Nayak, A.K., Panda, D.K., Nanda, P.Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Government of India, New Delhi. Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, RCA, MPUAT, Udaipur (Raj). ICAR-Social Science Network Project Report “Regional Crop Planning for Improving Resource Use Efficiency and Sustainability in Rajasthan”. India Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58 (3): 467-476. Policies of water management and sustainable water use. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 7( 1): 3397-3409 Optimal use of agricultural land and water resources through reconfiguring crop plan for different agro-climatic zones of Bihar (India). Keywords Economic performance Economic price and natural resource valuation Optimum cropping pattern Market price. The optimal plan is suggested that more area under cultivation of legume crops like groundnut, clusterbean and gram because of they are less water intensive and more environment friendly and thus have a positive impact on natural resource valuation with the existing water availability. The overall gain to society has increased at economic prices by `49.39 lakh whereas it was decreased by `93.24 lakh at natural resource valuation due to the lack of cultivation of legume crops. market, economic and natural resource valuation prices were estimated as `114.38 lakh, `114.45 lakh and `138.82 lakh, respectively. Net gain to the farmers based on the alternative price scenarios viz. Results from the study shows that groundnut-barley combination of crop sequence was found the most remunerative in economic return generated over the year of `59418 per hectare followed by groundnut-vegetables (`53930/ha) and groundnut-gram (`52879/ha) combinations. Similarly green house gas emissions from the crops have been taken as cost to the society and nitrogen fixation by leguminous crops have been taken as gain to the society. This study has considered subsidy as a cost to society. (i) Market prices (MP) (ii) Economic prices (EP) and (iii) Net income based on natural resource valuation technique (NRV). The performance of different crops was assessed by calculating net returns under three alternative price scenarios i.e. In the present study, the unit-level cost of cultivation data of various crops for the triennium ending year 2013-14 which were collected from “Comprehensive Scheme to Study the Cost of Cultivation of Principal Crops in Rajasthan state. The present investigation was undertaken to work out the economic performance and optimum cropping pattern based on alternative price scenarios in Arid-Western Plain Zone of Rajasthan state.
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