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1 Kishore, Avinash. 2002. Social impact of canal irrigation: a review of 30 years of research. IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program Annual Partners' Meet, 2002. Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India: IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program. 26p.
Irrigation canals ; Social impact ; Land ownership ; Employment ; Irrigated farming ; Labor ; Wells ; Surface water ; Groundwater / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 KIS Record No: H029648)
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2 Mukherji, Aditi; Kishore, Avinash. 2003. Public tubewell transfer in Gujarat: marketing approach to IMT. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 2/2003. 5p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G635 MUK Record No: H031796)
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Research highlight based on a paper titled Irrigation management transfer: GWRDCÆs Tubewell Transfer Programme in Gujarat
3 Kishore, Avinash. 2004. Understanding agrarian impasse in Bihar. Economic and Political Weekly, 39(31):3484-3491.
Tube wells ; Groundwater irrigation ; Rice ; Wheat ; Water market ; Farmers ; Land ownership ; Electricity supplies / India / Bihar
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7004 Record No: H035372)
The key hypothesis of policy-makers during the 1980s was that raising tubewell density would trigger agrarian upsurge in Bihar as it did in Punjab, Haryana and western UP. The state did record high growth rates of cereal yields during the 1980s, higher than the national figures. However, this promising development could not be sustained in the 1990s, and cereal yields have stagnated since then. Based on fieldwork in eight villages of Bihar, the paper argues that, more than agrarian structure, the lack of adequate infrastructure and economic incentives has contributed to the agrarian stagnation in Bihar. The growth potential unleashed by the expansion of shallow tubewell irrigation has been constrained by (a) complete neglect of public sector investments in physical and institutional infrastructure and (b) unfavorable output to factor price ratios.
4 Shah, Tushaar; Scott, Christopher; Kishore, Avinash; Sharma, Abhishek. 2004. Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: improving groundwater conservation and power sector viability. 2nd rev. ed. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). vi, 28p. (IWMI Research Report 070) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3910/2009.088]
Groundwater irrigation ; Energy consumption ; Irrigation systems ; Pumps ; Tube wells ; Policy making ; User charges ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Costs / South Asia / India / Pakistan / Bangladesh / Nepal
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G570 SHA Record No: H036593)
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In the highly populated South Asian region, where pump irrigation has gained predominance over gravity-flow irrigation in recent decades, the fortunes of groundwater and energy economies are closely tied. Little can be done in the groundwater economy that will not affect the energy economy, and the struggle to make the energy economy viable is frustrated by the often violent opposition from the farming community to the rationalization of energy prices. As a result, the region's groundwater economy has boomed at the expense of the development of the energy economy. This report suggests that this does not have to be so; and the first step to evolving approaches to sustaining a prosperous groundwater economy with a viable power sector is for the decision makers in the two sectors to talk to each other, and jointly explore better options for energy-groundwater co-management which, the authors suggest, have so far been overlooked.
5 Kishore, Avinash; Mishra, Keshari Nandan. 2005. Cost of energy for irrigation and agrarian dynamism in eastern Uttar Pradesh. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 21/2005. 7p.
Pumps ; Tube wells ; Energy ; Diesel oil ; Electricity ; Costs ; Irrigated farming ; Economic aspects ; Groundwater ; Water market ; Policy / India / Eastern Uttar Pradesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.4 G635 SIN Record No: H036610)
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