Identification and demarcation of ground water level with the help of horse power wise motor pumps in Bhokarbari irrigation project command area of Jalgaon district

Abstract

Horse power of motor pumps installed on the wells is one of the significant indicators help to identify and demarcate groundwater levels. In the present paper an attempt is made to display village wise spatial distribution of horse power wise motor pumps to identify the depth of ground water levels. When depth of ground water level is deep, farmers prefer high HP motor pumps to irrigate the fields and vice a versa. In the Bhokarbari command area, MSEB office has supplied electric connections to 2029 agricultural wells, out of them 89.84% wells have supplied below than 3 HP connections. It is concluded that due to highest number of wells, utilization of groundwater is more; hence most of the farmers are suffering from insufficient supply of groundwater to irrigate their fields. It revealed that, in the central part Intensive irrigated area are observed in the command area of the project. The central part of the study area is having good amount of groundwater.