Water resources are essential to human development processes and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals that seek, inter alia, to eradicate extreme poverty and …

This paper presents an overview of the theoretical, methodological and policy issues that
are evident both in the extant literature on the subject as well as in the set of papers that are …

Indian agriculture has achieved tremendous growth in production and productivity of crops
after Independence. Between 1950-51 and 2009-10, production of foodgrains increased …

This study explores the conceptual and policy issues relating to the impact that irrigation has
on crop production, farm income, inequities in income distribution and poverty alleviation. It …

Against the background of the rapid decline in irrigation water potential and low water‐use
efficiency in the flood (conventional) method of irrigation, drip irrigation has recently been …

The main objective of this study is to quantify the marginal impacts of irrigation and selected
input factors on spatial (across 14 states) and temporal (from 1970–1993) variation in the …

From the second half of the last century, agriculture in India has gone through enormous
changes because of the introduction of green revolution technology. The technology …

The water use efficiency under conventional flood method of irrigation, which is
predominantly practised in Indian agriculture, is very low due to substantial conveyance and …

Irrigation impacts agricultural wage trends through increased demand for labour, cropping
intensity and shift in the cropping pattern from low value crops to high value crops. An …

Groundwater irrigation has become a dominant source of irrigation in Indian agriculture
today. Besides increasing the cropping intensity and productivity of crops, the intensive …