Irrigation for very small farmers: appropriate technology or appropriate organization

Journal Article · Mon Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1980 · Economics and Political Weekly; ()

OSTI ID:6013219

Ghate, P B

Under the Integrated Rural Development Programme of India, small and marginal farmers are offered subsidies of 25 and 33%, respectively, of the capital cost of a ground-water structure. However, in view of the small and uneconomic size of irrigated land held by such farmers, the benefits of the programme can accrue to them only if the technologies of raising ground-water resources can be shared. This paper considers the results of ongoing action research in this field in Ghazipur district, eastern Uttar Pradesh. It first considers two examples of hardware solutions: the twin-plugger irrigation hand-pump; and the irrigation windmill currently being developed in Ghazipur by a voluntary organization. The paper concludes with a consideration of two organizational or software solutions: mobile pumpsets shared between a group of farmers; and state, community or agency tubewells.

• OSTI ID: 6013219
• Journal Information: Economics and Political Weekly; (), Journal Name: Economics and Political Weekly; () Vol. 15:52
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
530200* -- Environmental-Social Aspects of Energy Technologies-- Assessment of Energy Technologies-- (-1989)
ASIA
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
GROUND WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDIA
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
IRRIGATION
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
WATER