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This report reviews the current state of irrigation, plus prospects and plans, in India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, South Korea, Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
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This illustrated book commemorates the part of our history that irrigators played in developing our water resources and the impact that development had on the growth of our great nation. Over 150 photographs and drawings will lead you from the early days of irrigation development to the very...
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2002-01-01 This paper tries to shed light bydocumenting recent trends in irrigation investment in both public and private sectors; the public investments by the government in pursuance of the study by Aluwihare and Kikuchi, and the private investment by farmers, based on datacollected from an island-wide...
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2003-01-01 This study analysed the reasons for the sudden turn around in GWRDC's tubewell-transfer program and found that proactive policy changes under a new management helped the agency achieve rare management helped the agency achieve rare success in tubewell transfer, which had so far eluded them. 34...
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1990-01-06 This publication concentrates on the management aspects of chemigation and chemigation influences other aspects of irrigation management. 12 pages, illustrations
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2000-01-01 This report begins with a review of the different treadle pumps currently in use in Africa and the information available on their technical performance, with a view to trying to answer the question - Which is the best treadle pump? This is followed by reports prepared by national experts on the...
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This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernement agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.
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2021-01-01 Dry land plays an important role in India's food security. Sixty eight per cent of the cultivated area in Indian agriculture comes under dry land, which contributes about 44 per cent of the total food production. Dry land horticulture not only provides higher income to the farmers, but also...
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Modern Irrigation Technologies reviews the experience of small holders with irrigation technologies under a range of diverse conditions in many different countries. Some people argue that modern irrigation technologies are the key to increased food production. However, projects introducing modern...
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2002-01-01 As implications of policy and action diferge significantly, according to the gendered nature of local farming, insight in to the latter should be systematically recognized as the bais for any intervention by irrigation agencies. The assumption that farm decision-making coincides with headship of...