ABSTRACT
The Green Revolution enabled the small state of Haryana to become the ‘wheat granary’ of India – the state, though occupying 1.3% geographical area and 2% of the population of India, produces 13% wheat and about 3% quality rice of India besides other cereals, oil seeds, sugarcane and cotton. Haryana paid a heavy price for this impressive agricultural development in the form of serious degradation of basic geo-resources, i.e., water-soil-land. The purpose of the chapter is to bring out the linkages between the geomorphological and hydrogeological setting, agroecological zones and cropping patterns, irrigation from canal water and from groundwater and use of fertilizer, and their impact on the degradation of soil and groundwater.
