Different Sources of Irrigation: A Case Study of the Telangana Region

Indian agriculture after four and a half decades of institutional and structural changes has entered into a new era with specific technology and investment, the agrarian reforms had achieved certain middle ends. Of which the provision of irrigation water for India assumes all the significance for the sustainable agricultural development. This book in brief gives a good insight of irrigation as a structural benefactor for analysing productivity and efficiency. The irrigation performance has been assessed by different scholars in various ways viz, financial, socio-economic, returns, input use, hydrological etc. Further this study, tries to compare the productivity and efficiency from the users’ point of view under different sources of irrigation by taking Andhra Pradesh as case study wherein all the sources viz., canal, tank and well irrigations are evenly distributed. Another distinctive aspect of this book is, that based on secondary and primary sources of data, it tried to integrate by taking irrigation as a public policy and productivity and efficiency as technological coefficients under different sources of irrigation. This splendid work has immense potentials to researchers, policy makers and all those who are interested in the subject and or engaged in practical action to irrigation policy.