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Haryana produces only 7% of the total ginger production in India and the same is raised in the Morni Hills of the state. The cultivation of ginger is closely associated with soil and climate conditions and best production comes from foot-hill areas. In Morni hills, ginger is raised wherever there are limited irrigation facilities and best quality ginger is produced which is mainly used for making ginger powder,Saunth (dried ginger).

Water has become increasingly scarce worldwide and is being presumed that shortly more than one-third of the global population would face absolute water scarcity. Rising demand for urban and industrial water supplies pose a serious threat to irrigated agriculture. However, to achieve the required food and fiber production for ever-increasing population, water is to be used most judiciously. One of the key ways to boost overall agricultural production is to implement better soil-water management techniques in arid and semi-arid areas. One of the water management strategies introduced relatively recently in Indian agriculture is micro-irrigation (MI).

Paradoxically, in India 147 million hectares (m ha) land is reported to be suffering from different processes of land degradation and about 14.3 and 8.6 m ha area suffers from waterlogging and permanent submergence, respectively. In the fast-developing state of Haryana having acute scarcity of cultivated lands, 0.45 m ha (around 10 percent of total geographical area) suffers from the problem of waterlogging and salinity which imposes, serious limitations for raising crops at least in eight south-western districts namely Rohtak, Jhajjar, Charkhi Dadri, Bhiwani, Hisar, Jind, Sirsa and Fatiabad, and adversely affects the cropping pattern and crop productivity resulting in huge socio-economic losses.