Answer:
Advantages of Irrigation:
1. For proper nourishment of crops certain amount of water is required. If rainfall is insufficient there will be deficiency in fulfillment of water requirement. Irrigation tries to remove this deficiency caused due to inadequate rainfall. Thus, irrigation comes to rescue in dry years.
2. Irrigation improves the yield of crops and makes people prosperous. The living standards of the people is thereby improved.
Disadvantages of Irrigation:
1. Excessive seepage and leakage of water forms marshes and ponds all along the channels. The marshes and the ponds in course of time become the colonies of the mosquito, which gives rise to a disease like malaria.
2. Excessive seepage into the ground raises the water-table and this in turn completely saturates the crop root-zone. It causes waterlogging of that area.
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