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Planning Kerala's Irrigation Projects Technological Prejudice and Politics of Hope
The political objective of achieving self-sufficiency in rice production in Kerala supported the planning of major irrigation projects in alt the river basins of Kerala. The irrigation engineers who planned these projects showed a technological prejudice as they rarely sought alternative methods and...
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Economic and Political Weekly March 25, 1995
1995
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/003814.pdf |
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| 100 | |a V Santhakumar R Rajagopalan S Ambirajan | ||
| 245 | |a Planning Kerala's Irrigation Projects Technological Prejudice and Politics of Hope | ||
| 260 | |c 1995 | ||
| 260 | |b Economic and Political Weekly March 25, 1995 | ||
| 520 | |a The political objective of achieving self-sufficiency in rice production in Kerala supported the planning of major irrigation projects in alt the river basins of Kerala. The irrigation engineers who planned these projects showed a technological prejudice as they rarely sought alternative methods and scales of irrigation in each of these basins. This prejudice is of serious concern in a high rainfall area like Kerala, where the dam and canal-based system is 'naturally' costly and where there is a possibility of meeting the relatively small requirement of additional water through less expensive means. The objective of achieving self-sufficiency in rice and the policy of having major irrigation projects in all the basins seem to be based on the neglect of the specific agro-climatological and agro-ecological features of humid-tropic Kerala | ||
| 856 | |u http://10.26.1.76/ks/003814.pdf | ||
| 942 | |c KS | ||
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