India has the longest mileage of irrigation canals in the world with the second largest acreage under irrigation (Anon 1962). In Madras State, the Lower Bhavani Project commanding 2,07,000 acres in the Gobi, Erode, Bhavani and Dharapuram Taluks of Coimbatore district and Karur Taluk in Tiruchirapalli district is an important irrigation scheme. The construction of this 105 crore project was started late in 1948 and completed in 1956 and the entire system thrown open for irrigation by September 1956. The evolution of Cropping Pattern in this Lower Bhavani Project Ayacut in the last decade is discussed in this article.
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