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1 Haque, T.; Verma, S.. 1988. Regional and class disparities in the flow of agricultural credit in India. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 43(3):356-363.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H05255)
2 Verma, S.; Satpathy, M. 2003. Irrigation development for tribal farmers in Surat District of Gujarat: A study of lift irrigation schemes installed by the Gujarat Water Resource Development Corporation Ltd. Draft report. 35p.
Irrigated farming ; Water lifting ; Pumping ; Costs ; Irrigation programs ; Sugarcane ; Water rates ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects / India / Gujarat / Surat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 VER Record No: H031128)
3 Phansalkar, S. J.; Verma, S.; Bhamoriya, V. 2003. Agrarian transformation among tribals: A synthesis of six case studies prepared under the central India initiative of NMSWDF, IWMI-Tata and PRADAN. Draft report. 34p.
Agrarian reform ; Case studies ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; Irrigated farming ; Villages ; Conflict / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 PHA Record No: H031129)
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4 Verma, S.. 2003. More crop per drop: can micro-irrigation help alleviate groundwater depletion? In World Water Forum 3: Water, Food and Environment. Groundwater Governance in Asia: The Challenge of Taming a Colossal Anarchy, Kyoto, Japan, 17 March 2003. Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India. International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.11.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G570 VER Record No: H031379)
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5 Kishore, A.; Verma, S.. 2003. What determines pumping behaviour of tubewell owners: marginal cost or opportunity cost? IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 6/2003. 5p.
Tube wells ; Pumping ; Costs ; Water rates ; Groundwater extraction ; Groundwater irrigation / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 KIS Record No: H031800)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled ôPumping behaviour under different tariff regimes: The Anand surveyö
6 Mukherji, A.; Verma, S.; Rath, P. 2003. Agrarian transformation among tribals: from migrants to farmer irrigators. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 8/2003. 5p.
Farmers attitudes ; Tribal peoples ; Irrigated farming ; Cropping systems ; Rainfed farming ; Migrant labor ; Wage rates / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H031802)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled Impact of participatory irrigation management on tribals in South Gujarat
7 Mukherji, A.; Verma, S.; Rath, P. 2002. Canal irrigation management by tribal communities: case study of AKRSP(I) supported PIM societies [including IWMI-TATA Water Policy Programme] in South Gujarat. Ahmedabad, India: Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India). 42p. (AKRSP-1 Research Studies)
Irrigation canals ; Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Farmer participation ; Irrigated farming ; Cropping systems ; Crop yield ; Wage rates ; Migrant labor ; Water distribution ; Water rates ; Economic impact ; Maintenance ; Non-governmental organizations / India / South Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H033198)
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AB Provision of irrigation has been thought to be crucial in improving the livelihoods of millions of tribals in Central belt of India, who are locked in perpetual poverty. Green Revolution Technology, which has been at the heart of India’s agricultural development, has more or less bypassed the tribal population. For one, irrigation infrastructure is inadequate in the tribal regions and again when irrigation infrastructure is made available, the tribals do not seem to make adequate use of them. Creating demand for irrigation among the tribal farmers seems to be most important challenge. It is in this backdrop that we undertook our case study in a tribal dominated block of Gujarat. Unlike the other tribal dominated areas Jharkhand and Chattisgarh), the tribals in our study area were third generation farmers and therefore they faced no cognitive barriers in adopting irrigated agriculture. They are also as skilled a farmer as any other, which is reflected by the fact that there are no discernable yield differences between a tribal and a non-tribal farmer. We studied four canal irrigation schemes, which have been all turned over to the farmers at the behest of AKRSP (I)’s intervention. All these four schemes are tribal dominated, some of them are completely so, others have a handful of non-tribal population. The schemes we studied were Pingot RBMC, Baldeva LBMC, Pingot LBMC and Issar Minor Irrigation scheme. Our results confirm that irrigated agriculture has brought about tremendous benefits to a tribal farmer in the form of yield increases, higher cropping intensity, lower out migration and higher wage rates within the village. The trajectory of change for a typical tribal farming has been from cultivating local paddy in Kharif and migrating in Rabi and summer to cultivating hybrid paddy in kharif and irrigated groundnut or moong in summer. Irrigated agriculture has become central to their livelihoods and this in part explains why Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) has been more or less successful here. However, the non-tribal farmers have benefited more from PIM than tribal farmers, because they shifted to very lucrative sugarcane farming. The non-tribals (Patels) have also played a significant role in these irrigation co-operatives in that they have provided the much needed “demonstration effect” of profitability of irrigated agriculture. AKRSP (I)’s role as facilitator of PIM in Pingot RBMC and Baldeva LBMC has been acclaimed nationally. But we propose that the success of these two schemes lies in the creation of Pingot LBMC society, where tribal farmers came forward on their own and formed irrigation society to take over management of the canal system. The very fact that an all-tribal farmer group could successfully replicate PIM experiment in Gujarat that was started with Pingot RBMC and Baldeva LBMC is a proof enough for the success of PIM as a whole. We also propose that in the long term, the sustainability of PIM will depend on the overall profitability of irrigated agriculture and therefore efforts should be made to make farming a more profitable venture for the tribal farmers. Encouraging them to shift to highly lucrative crops such as sugarcane and orchard crops could perhaps make irrigated agriculture more profitable in future.
8 Mukherji, Aditi; Shah, Tushaar; Verma, S.. 2010. Electricity reforms and its impact on groundwater use: evidence from India. In Martinez-Cortina, L.; Garrido, A.; Lopez-Gunn, E. (Eds.). Re-thinking Water and Food Security: Fourth Botin Foundation Water Workshop. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.299-306.
Groundwater irrigation ; Water governance ; Electricity supplies ; Water market ; Pricing ; Water rates ; Tube wells ; Pumping / India / Gujarat / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.61 G000 MAR Record No: H043217)
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Minimizing the negative impacts of groundwater over-exploitation, while preserving the benefits from such intensive use has emerged as the key natural resources management challenge in South Asia. Direct regulation of groundwater is not a feasible option in the region given over 20 million pumps and the huge transactions costs involved. In this context, indirect mechanism, such as regulation of electricity supply and changes in electricity pricing and subsidies can provide an effective tool for governing groundwater. This chapter documents two such cases of electricity reforms that have had profound impact on groundwater use in Indian states of Gujarat and West Bengal.
9 Mukherji, Aditi; Shah, Tushaar; Verma, S.. 2010. Electricity reforms and their impact on groundwater use in states of Gujarat, West Bengal and Uttarakhand, India. In Lundqvist, J. (Ed.). On the water front: selections from the 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). pp.100-107.
Groundwater ; Electricity supplies ; Pumping ; Tube wells ; Indicators / India / Gujarat / West Bengal / Uttarakhand / Jyotirgram Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043337)
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/documents/Resources/Synthesis/On_the_Water_Front_selections_from_WWW.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043337.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043337.pdf
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Managing the externalities of groundwater use by minimising the negative impacts of over-exploitation, while preserving the benefits from such use, has emerged as the key natural resources management challenge in South Asia. Direct regulation of groundwater is not a feasible option in the region given the large number of pumps (over 20 million or so) and the huge transactions costs involved. In this context, an indirect mechanism, such as the regulation of the electricity supply and changes in electricity pricing and subsidies, can provide an effective tool for governing groundwater use. The link between groundwater and electricity is rather straight forward – electricity is used for pumping groundwater from aquifers. This paper documents three such cases of electricity reforms that have had a profound impact on groundwater use in the Indian states of Gujarat and West Bengal.
10 Verma, S.. 2010. Understanding interstate virtual water trade and its determinants in India. In Lundqvist, J. (Ed.). On the water front: selections from the 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). pp.80-89.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043362)
http://www.worldwaterweek.org/documents/Resources/Synthesis/On_the_Water_Front_selections_from_WWW.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043362.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H043362.pdf
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Based on recent estimates, this paper discusses the nature of and factors affecting domestic virtual water trade in India against the backdrop of an ambitious US$120 billion interbasin water transfer plan of the Government of India. Our analysis shows that differences in water endowments fail to fully explain virtual water trade flows. We argue that it is economic rather than physical water scarcity (or abundance) that explains trade flows. Non-water factors – such as per capita arable land – and public policy on agricultural inputs and access to agricultural markets explain the trade flows better. We therefore argue that these factors need to be taken into account for a more nuanced understanding of the virtual water trade and its policy interpretation.
11 Shah, Tushaar; Krishnan, S.; Hemant, P.; Verma, S.; Chandra, A.; Sudhir, C. 2010. A case for pipelining water distribution in the Narmada Irrigation System in Gujarat, India. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 17p. (IWMI Working Paper 141) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2010.233]
Irrigation projects ; Canals ; Water distribution ; Pipes ; Reservoirs ; Water conservation / India / Sardar Sarovar Project / Narmada Irrigation System / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.1 G635 SHA Record No: H043567)
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Thanks to farmers’ resistance to provide land for constructing watercourses below the outlets, India’s famous Sardar Sarovar Project is stuck in an impasse. Against a potential to serve 1.8 million hectares, the Project was irrigating just 100,000 hectares five years after the dam and main canals were ready. Indications are that full project benefits will get delayed by years, even decades. In this paper, IWMI researchers advance ten reasons why the Project should abandon its original plan of constructing open channels and license private service providers to invest in pumps and buried pipeline networks to sell irrigation service to farmers.
12 Shah, Tushaar; Krishnan, S.; Hemant, P.; Verma, S.; Chandra, A.; Sudhir, C. 2011. A case for pipelining water distribution in the Narmada Irrigation System in Gujarat, India. In Parthasarathy, R.; Dholakia, R. H. (Eds.). Sardar Sarovar Project on the River Narmada: impacts so far and ways forward. Vol. 3. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing Company. pp.777-799.
Irrigation systems ; Pipes ; Water distribution ; Case studies ; Economic aspects ; Water productivity ; Conjunctive use ; Energy / India / Gujarat / Narmada Irrigation System / Sardar Sarovar Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043802)
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13 Verma, S.; Shah, Tushaar. 2012. Labor market dynamics in post-MGNREGA [Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act] rural India. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 8. 9p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045225)
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14 Verma, S.; Krishnan, S.; Reddy, A.; Reddy, K. R. 2012. Andhra Pradesh [India] Farmer Managed Groundwater Systems (APFAMGS): a reality check. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 37. 11p.
Groundwater management ; Resource depletion ; Water governance ; Farmers ; Non governmental organizations ; Institutions ; Surveys / India / Andhra Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045484)
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15 Verma, S.; Shah, Tushaar. 2012. Beyond digging and filling holes: lessons from case studies of best-performing MGNREGA [Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Program] water assets. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 42. 9p.
Water security ; Investment ; Legislation ; Poverty ; Farmers ; Case studies / India / Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Program
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045489)
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16 Pullabhotla, H. K.; Kumar, C.; Verma, S.. 2012. Micro-irrigation subsidies in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh [India] implications for market dynamics and growth. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 43. 9p.
Microirrigation ; Drip irrigation ; Sprinkler irrigation ; Models ; Farmers ; Costs / India / Gujarat / Andhra Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045492)
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17 Verma, S.; Krishnan, S. 2012. Assessing the agrarian impact of decentralized water harvesting at the basin scale: a discussion on methodology. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 47. 9p.
Water harvesting ; Groundwater recharge ; River basins ; Surveys ; Socioeconomic environment ; Crops / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045496)
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18 Krishnan, S.; Verma, S.. 2012. Mapping the hydrological processes in a community-reconfigured river basin: some conceptual issues and results from a simple dry run. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 50. 11p.
Hydrology ; River basins ; Mapping ; Water harvesting ; Non governmental organizations ; Reservoirs ; Rain ; Simulation models / India / Gujarat / Saurashtra Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045499)
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19 Shah, Tushaar; Verma, S.; Pavelic, Paul. 2013. Understanding smallholder irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: results of a sample survey from nine countries. Water International, 38(6):809-826. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.843843]
Smallholders ; Irrigation development ; Irrigation systems ; Pumps ; Socioeconomic environment ; Living standards ; Surveys ; Rainfed farming ; Crop production ; Farmers ; Women ; Households ; Land tenure ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Investment / Africa South of Sahara / Burkina Faso / Ethiopia / Ghana / Kenya / Malawi / Mali / Niger / Nigeria / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H046198)
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Smallholder irrigation is emerging as a development priority in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on a survey of 1554 smallholders from nine countries, this paper compares rainfed farming with gravity-flow, manual-lift and motor-pump irrigation. Motor-pump-irrigation farmers reported the highest net value added per acre and per family worker, with gravity-flow and manual-irrigation farmers earning marginally more than rainfed-only farmers. In addition to making affordable pumps more readily available, improving the availability of working capital, enhancing security of tenure and ensuring the availability of affordable fuel are all likely to accelerate smallholder irrigation development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
20 Shah, Tushaar; Verma, S.. 2014. Addressing water management. In Debroy, B.; Tellis, A. J.; Trevor, R. Getting India back on track: an action agenda for post-election reform. Washington DC, USA: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. pp.185-206.
Water management ; Water resources ; Water supply ; International waters ; Irrigation systems ; Sanitation ; Groundwater irrigation ; Aquifers ; Economic aspects ; Farmers / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046483)
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