Research and Technology Status: Emerging Opportunities in Land and Water Management

Abstract

Land and water are two important finite natural resources, which due to haphazard and unscrupulous exploitation are diminishing at a faster pace. In present scenario, prediction of climate change plays a key role in adverse weather monitoring to maintain the current global food and water security. India consists of 2.4% of world land resources, 4% of water resources but 16% of world population and contributes 8% of global GDP. Therefore, due to increasing population, land and water resources are under enormous pressure which emphasis on sustainable use of natural resources. There is a need of inculcation of advanced technology like sensor based precision irrigation, geospatial techniques and ground water exploration, assessment and modelling approaches to overcome the crisis of natural resources. Sensor based irrigation helps in rationale of irrigation scheduling, geospatial techniques in the monitoring of natural resources and exploration and modelling approaches of groundwater resources to overcome rapid depletion and contamination of ground water. Therefore, keeping in view of recent advancement, the present study was undertaken on “Research and Technology status: Emerging opportunities in land and water management”.