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Linking Irrigation with Development The Kerala Experience

Disproportionately high investment in irrigation in Kerala has nevertheless been marked by long time overruns in completion of projects and a far lower area than that targetted being brought under irrigation. The bulk of the investment, moreover, is for major-medium projects, and is intended for pad...

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Main Author: D Narayana K Narayanan Nair
Format: Printed Book
Published: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY 1983
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/003893.pdf
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520 |a Disproportionately high investment in irrigation in Kerala has nevertheless been marked by long time overruns in completion of projects and a far lower area than that targetted being brought under irrigation. The bulk of the investment, moreover, is for major-medium projects, and is intended for paddy lands. This paper aims in Section I to consider to what extent irrigation has succeeded in increasing and stabilising paddy yields; and in Section II to explore the possible reasons hindering proper use of irrigation water in paddy cultivation. 
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