State ill effects of excess Irrigation

1 Answer

Answer :

a) Water logging:

Water logging renders the soil infertile and useless for cultivation.

b) Salt efflorescence due to water logging

Salt efflorescence due to water logging damages the soil.

c) Breeding of mosquitoes

Breeding of mosquitoes takes place due to over irrigation.

d) Damp climate

The climate becomes cold and damp due to over irrigation of an area. This dampness

in climate causes diseases such as malaria , dengue etc

e) Excessive humidity

Excess and intense irrigation may result in increasing the humidity of the area.

f) Ecological imbalance:

g) Water flooding in the crop root zone: Water flooding in the crop root zone causes

wilting of plants.

Related questions

Description : Salination of soil is caused by – (1) pesticides (2) soil erosion (3) excess irrigation (4) crop rotation

Last Answer : (3) excess irrigation Explanation: Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil: the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization. Excess irrigation leads to increase in ... is also greatly increased by poor drainage and use of saline water for irrigating agricultural crops.

Description : Salination of soil is caused by (1) pesticides (2) soil erosion (3) excess irrigation (4) crop rotation

Last Answer : excess irrigation

Description : If you have a TV marathon, do you suffer any ill-effects?

Last Answer : My husband and I do this pretty often. I don’t believe either of us have had any trouble with it at all.

Description : Know anyone who was helped by getting a CAT scan and has had no ill side effects?

Last Answer : answer:Me! A bulging disk in my neck and 5 in my back. I got in a car accident in september of 08, afterwards I was experiencing tons of back and neck pain. I went from dr to dr each one ... waking (hell even sleeping) moment of my life but thats just my back,and id say unrelated to the scan.

Description : can yellow collard greens be cooked and eaten without ill effects?

Last Answer : Need Answer

Description : How do industries pollute air? Explain ill effects of pollution. -SST 10th

Last Answer : The air we breathe gets polluted by the smoke emitted by chemical and paper factories, brick kilns, refineries and smelting plants and burning of fossil fuels in big and small factories that ... Air pollution adversely affects human health, animals, plants, buildings and the atmosphere as a whole.

Description : What do you understand by the term “deforestation”? Discuss its ill-effects on the mankind.

Last Answer : Deforestation: is a large-scale removal of forest prior to its replacement by other land uses. Forests are removed for a variety of reasons, including agriculture, timber harvesting, and mining, and ... erosion. This is due to high rainfall, which leaches nutrients from the soil and speeds erosion.

Description : Lung cancer & DNA breakage are the major ill effects of excessive ozone exposure to human beings. Ozone layer depletion in the atmosphere is mainly caused by the presence of (A) CO2 (B) SO2 (C) Hydrocarbons (D) CFC (chloro fluoro carbon)

Last Answer : (D) CFC (chloro fluoro carbon)

Description : Consequences (or) ill effects (or) impact of deforestation on the environment

Last Answer : Since many people are dependent on the forest resources, deforestation will have the following social, economic and ecological effects.

Description : The adrenal glands A) are located near the thyroid gland. B) are located near the kidneys. C) are regulated by the posterior pituitary. D) are regulated by the pancreas. E) can be removed without ill effects.

Last Answer : B) are located near the kidneys.

Description : Salinization occurs when the irrigation water accumulated in the soil evaporates, leaving behind salts and minerals. What are the effects of salinization on the irrigated land? [CSAT 2011] (a) It greatly increases ... c) It raises the water table (d) It fills the air spaces in the soil with water

Last Answer : Ans: (b)

Description : Salinization occurs when the irrigation water accumulated in the soil evaporates, leaving behind salts and minerals. What are the effects of salinization on the irrigated land? a. It greatly increases the crop ... c. It raises the water table d. It fills the air spaces in the soil with water

Last Answer : b. It may lead to crop yield loss

Description : When a state court decides a perpetrator is mentally ill does the state then become the legal guardian of this person?

Last Answer : Not necessarily. Mental illness does not necessarily mean you can’t make your own decisions.