Irrigated example sentences

Of the total cultivated area in the country a little less than 40 per cent is irrigated even today.For instance, take the case of a small farmer, Laxmi , owning about two hectares of unirrigated land dependent only on rain and growing crops like jowar and arhar.People felt that their suffering would not be in vain… accepted the trauma of displacement believing in the promise of irrigated fields and plentiful harvests.Apart from the riverine plains, coastal regions in our country are well-irrigated.Hence, to facilitate higher food-grain production, water resources are being over-exploited to expand irrigated areas and dry-season agriculture.In 1960, Gobind was a farmer with 25 hectares of largely unirrigated land.Take the case of Laxmi with her two-hectare plot of un-irrigated land.