Agriculture is.the back bone of Indian economy; a s.bs.antial percent of GDP is.s.ill being contributed by agriculture. For the development of agriculture, as.ured s.pply of irrigation is.needed. Groundwater plays.an ...
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Agriculture is.the back bone of Indian economy; a s.bs.antial percent of GDP is.s.ill being contributed by agriculture. For the development of agriculture, as.ured s.pply of irrigation is.needed. Groundwater plays.an important role, not only in mitigating the problem of irrigation water for agriculture but als. s.rves.as.s.urce for domes.ic and indus.rial s.pply of water. As.s.ch fluctuations.of groundwater table over the different periods.of the year plays.important role. In this.paper, an attempt has.been made to model the groundwater table in two agriculturally important dis.ricts.namely Nadia and Burdwan. Time s.ries.data (2005 to 2013) recorded during January, May, Augus. and November each year from a number of s.tes.in each dis.ricts.are us.d for s.udy purpos.. Various.parametric model are us.d to delineate and model the fluctuations.of groundwater tables.for thes. two dis.ricts. Multivariate clus.ering technique us.ng s.uared Euclidean dis.ance meas.re and adopting complete linkage method has.been us.d to clus.er 50 s.tes.in Burdwan and 19 s.tes.in Nadia dis.rict bas.d on their groundwater fluctuations.over the s.as.ns. Analys.s.reveals.that in both the dis.ricts.three groups.could be framed out of the 50 and 19 groundwater level meas.ring s.tes.of Burdwan and Nadia, res.ectively. Dis.riminant analys.s.was.als. attempted to identify the contribution of different s.as.ns.in groundwater fluctuations.during the clus.ering of the s.tes.in each dis.rict. The authors.are hopeful that the res.lt of the s.udy will help the planners.in taking clus.er wis. action plan for monitoring and maintaining the groundwater table in thes. two dis.ricts.
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