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As the world's population grows, so will the need for food, as well as natural resources such as land and water. Considering the needs of the world's 7 billion people, agriculture will require additional land and water to produce enough food grains. natural resources like land and water. Keeping in view the need of 7 billion world population, agriculture will need more land and water to produce enough food grains. Availability of natural resources is depleting at faster rate. Thus, to fulfil the needs of future population would be more challenging task for farming communities. Therefore, shifting from traditional agricultural practices to sustainable agricultural practices is the need of the hour. Karnataka faced severe draught from 2014 to 2017, which had negative impact on the agricultural yield, which eventually impacted the farmer’s living conditions. Therefore, to maximize the yield and profit with minimum input, the farmers of Belagavi and Kalaburagi districts adopted sustainable farming practices. This paper is going to highlight the crop water requirement to determine the irrigation schedule for sugarcane using CROPWAT, impact on the yield because of sustainable practices using statistical analysis and impact assessment of the sustainable farming practices using the Theory of Change (TOC) framework.
Keywords – Sustainable farming, Sugarcane, CROPWAT, Statistical Analysis, TOC, Impact assessment.
