Micro Irrigation Systems in India: Emergence Status and Impacts

A. Narayanamoorthy is currently working as Reader and Officer-in-Charge, Agro-Economic Research Centre, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Deemed to be a University), Pune. Dr. Narayanamoorthy has been working in the area of irrigation including micro irrigation and watershed management over the last 15 years. He has published over 75 research articles in both international and Indian journals, and completed over a dozen research projects mainly in the area of irrigation. He has also acted as a consultant for a project on Impact of Irrigation in India: An Aggregate Level Analysis sponsored by the International Water Management Institute, Colombo. He has co-authored two books: An Appraisal of Watershed Development Programme Across Regions in India and State of the Indian Farmer: A Millennium Study (Vol. 3: Water Resources) sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and published by Academic Foundation (2004).

M. Dinesh Kumar is Executive Director, Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP), Hyderabad. He is also Associate Editor, Water Policy and editorial board member for International Journal of Water Resources Development.

P.K. Viswanathan is Associate Professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad. His research interests broadly cover areas, such as Natural Resources Economics; Rural transformation; Sustainable rural livelihoods; working of technology, instiutions; Working of technology, institutions, policies and governance in dynamic contexts; Economics of climate change and conservation of natural resources, etc.