FARMER AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION
IN
IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Book is divided into four sections which covers
Farmers Participation in Irrigation Management
Farmers Organisation and System Turnover;
Turning over Irrigation Managementto Farmers:
Problems and Prospects: and Case Studies and Experiences in Organising Farmers.
The first section introduces the concept of Participatory Irrigation Management exploring its relevance and usefulness in planning, operating and maintaining irrigation systems and also in extension education. Some national and international experiences in PIM are also narrated.
The second part describes the different programmes which have been undertaken in Orissa and other states of India for organising farmers to form Water Users Association and to turn over the responsibility of operation and maintenance, water distribution and collection of water rates of tertiary level canals to such associations.
The third section contains the problems and difficulties that will be encountered in implementing such programmes as visualized by farmers, irrigation practitioners and social scientists.
The fourth part narrates some empirical findings and experiences in forming farmers associations and turning over irrigation management to farmers.
This volume is an important contribution on Participatory Irrigation Management dealing with its concept, programmes undertaken for its operationalisation: problems and experiences in implementation of such programmes. This book will be of interest to agricultural economists, irrigation planners and general readers concerned with efficient, equitable and sustainable water management.
AUTHOR:
Gyan Chandra Kar & Mamata Swain
PUBLISHER:
Commonwealth Publishers
4831/24, Pralhad Street
Ansari Road
New Delhi – 110002
Phone: 3272541
PRICE
Rs 475/-
TITLE :
INDIA:
Irrigation
Management Partnerships
ABOUT THE BOOK
The volume covers not only the issues but also the examples of management approaches in which farmers and Irrigation authorities strove to improve irrigation performance. This volume presents 22 such papers discussed at the National Workshop on Farmers Management in Irrigation Systems held during 4-6 February 1992 at ASCI, Hyderabad. This volume is a compilation of those papers planned and edited by Dr Sivamohan in association with Christopher Scott. The volume represents a collection of documented experience, which will be available for the first time in the same place. The deliberations of the workshop and also the focus of the papers point to the need for moving towards a new concept of partnership between farmers and the Government.
The collection of papers is useful to both research scholars and practitioners of irrigation management as it contains rich experience in operationalising the concept.
Managing Irrigation Analysing and improving the performance of bureaucracies
ABOUT THE BOOK
Thebook addresses the crucial but neglected element in the equation of successful system operation. The authors start from the premise that irrigation management is best regarded as a socio-technical enterprise, where the human dimension interacts with the technical and physical ones. They suggest a series of practical means for improving the way irrigation bureaucracies operate and manages at all levels organize work, incentives and communication.
Drawing upon current thinking on business and public administration as well as on interdisciplinary organisation theory, the authors bring irrigation management within the scope of contemporary management principles. They delineate twelve activities, which must be performed in all systems by the managers, and/or water users and then discuss the agro-ecological, technical and economic contexts within which irrigation systems have to operate.
To improve system performance the authors examine the structure and orientation of irrigation bureaucracies and analyse the positive changes, which can be made in the management structure and in agency orientation.
To conclude the authors present three frame works: socio-technical analysis, institution building and institutional development for improving the performance of irrigation bureaucracies.
This book being the first to address this subject and drawing from the experience of a number of countries, will interest all those dealing with irrigation, agriculture, public administration and rural development in Third World countries.
AUTHOR:
Norman Uphoff with Priti Ramamurthy and Roy Steiner
PUBLISHER:
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd M-32, Greater Kailash Market. I
New Delhi – 110048
RICE
Rs 195/-
TITLE:
FARMERS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book is a collection of case studies on farmers participation in irrigation management. Some of them highlight the operation of traditional irrigation systems in India and elsewhere in the world. Others review the attempts made to organise the farmers on government owned large and small irrigation projects and role of farmers and government officials in rehabilitation. There is also a study on the role of voluntary action in tribal lift irrigation societies. A variety of issues involved in creating and sustaining farmers association – economic, social, administrative, legal and financial are highlighted.
The contributors, Indian and foreign, are well known in their own fields of specialization. The case studies were specially prepared for a recent policy workshop on farmers participation in irrigation management where several problem-oriented papers were presented. These are also included in this volume.
AUTHOR:
K K Singh
PUBLISHER:
Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd L-10, Green Park ExtensionNew Delhi - 110016G-2, Cunningham Apartments,Cunningham Road
Bangalore - 560052
PRICE:
Rs 300/-
TITLE :
MANAGING IRRIGATION TOGETHERPractice and Policy in India
ABOUT THE BOOK
The book explores the way in which even small farmers can organise themselves to manage irrigation. The authors have covered a large range of issues including methods of field distribution; environmental aspects; and ways to set up farmers organisation for water management. They also provide a comparative analysis of irrigation policies in India and other countries and examples of successful farmers organizations for irrigation in India.
Maintaining that efforts to increase irrigation efficiency have so far been mostly technical, the authors urge that irrigation is in reality a social process. They present case studies to show that when farmers form associations for water management and genuinely work together with government agencies, they can grow more food with better equity and with higher recovery of irrigation costs.
This comprehensive volume will be of considerable interest to practitioners of irrigation management, rural development, civil engineering and the environment as also policy makers, planners and all government agencies involved with irrigation.
AUTHOR:
Clarence Maloney & K V Raju
PUBLISHER:
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd M-32, Greater Kailash Market. New Delhi - 110048
PRICE
Rs 350/-
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
