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Aug 2026
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Geography
JS HINDU COLLEGE AMROHA
Geography
JS HINDU COLLEGE AMROHA
This study analyzes agricultural change in Amroha after almost fifty years, representing the Indo-Gangetic alluvial plains of western Uttar Pradesh. It shows how the traditional subsistence farming system evolved into an input-intensive, commercial farming system. An integrated research framework that combines statistical analysis and trend evaluation, spatial analysis, and socio-economic and environmental evaluation is used to study long-term impacts on the structure of agriculture, land use, changes in productivity, and development of irrigation. The analysis shows a greater focus on a fewer number of major crops such as sugarcane, wheat, rice, mentha, among others, and certain vegetables. The restructuring of agriculture was caused by a great number of inter-related factors, which include the private tube wells, the efforts of the farmers to ensure irrigation, the opening up of regional markets, the use of high-yielding varieties and an increasing reliance on chemical inputs, and the availability of government procurement policies and price support. These factors created a substantial farm output and farm income growth. There are likewise challenges concerning sustainability from the process of intensification. Amongst the most serious of these are the impacts of intensive irrigation on aquifer decline. It is also problematic that the impacts of intensive crop irrigation are accompanied by declining soil quality and increased economic vulnerability of small and marginal farmers related to increasing inputs costs and erratic market returns. The report predicts that the continuation of the present development pathway will be detrimental to both the ecological and sociopolitical systems of rural livelihoods. Because of this, the report underscores the need for integrated efforts to improve sustainability within the limits of the trade-offs between increased productivity and resource use. Attention should be paid to efforts to speed up the increase in efficient irrigation practices and cropping diversification as well as differentiated policies based on local environmental and social political concerns to enhance agricultural resilience in the long-term. Keywords: Amroha district, changes in land use, ground water irrigation, sugarcane specialization, agricultural transformation, challenges associated with the change of cropping systems.
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Amroha is an illustrative example of the positive and negative impacts of agricultural intensification in the North Indian region. Amroha has benefited from the private groundwater development coupled with market integration and government support for cash crops. Water intensive monoculture has growing pains of inequality and ecological sustainability in the agricultural system. This is a threat to the progress recently attained. If drastic measures are not taken, we will lose the basic resources from which the progress was made. The balance in demand for the economy, water, soils, diversity of crops, and equity should be geographically informed. The case of Amroha offers grounds for lessons on the pressures of intensification that will be seen in most other districts of the Indo Gangetic Plain.
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