Apart from increase in the production of food, there are many indirect benefits or advantages of irrigations such as:
- Protection from famine
- Cultivation of cash crops
- Addition to the wealth of the country
- Increase in prosperity of people
- Generation of hydroelectric power
- Domestic and industrial water supply
- Inland navigation
- Canal plantations
- Improvement in the groundwater storage
- General development of the country
- Storage of water for various purposes
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