Management of Water for Agriculture : Irrigation, Watersheds and Drainage/Rakesh
Hooja. New Delhi, Rawat, 2006, xiv, 394 p., ISBN 81-7033-886-7.
Management of Water for Agriculture : Irrigation, Watersheds and Drainage/Rakesh
Hooja. New Delhi, Rawat, 2006, xiv, 394 p., ISBN 81-7033-886-7.
Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. Overview: Integrated Use of Water for Irrigation and Agriculture: 1. Administering water in India in 2050 AD. 2. Integrated irrigation management: the command area development approach and farmer's participation. 3. Reflections of some software aspects of water policy in India: command area development, participatory irrigation management, watershed development and rainwater harvesting. II. Participatory Irrigation Management: 4. Ten questions regarding participatory irrigation management approach in the Indian context. 5. Participatory irrigation management efforts in Rajasthan in the early 1990s. 6. Participatory irrigation management: issues related to policy, implementation and research. 7. Revisiting participatory irrigation management in India. III. Managing a Large Integrated CAD Project : Case Studies of Two Projects: 8. The administrative system in the Indira Gandhi Canal Project (IGNP). 9. Command area development and motivating settlers: aspects of social and environmental sustainability in IGNP. 10. The Chambal-Rajasthan CAD project: past and present strategies. IV. Drainage and Salinity Control: 11. Need for drainage: international and national perspectives. 12. Operationalizing drainage efforts in India: a strategy based on land and water management programmes in an Indian state. V. Managing Watershed Development: 13. Watershed approaches in the early 1980s-I: towards people's participation in comprehensive watershed development programme. 14. Watershed approaches in the early 1980s-II: a strategy for land-water management and productivity. 15. The changing role of Panchayat bodies in watershed development in the 1990s and beyond. Index.
"In this book, the author develops a structured analytical approach to water resources management/administration at the local level and weaves it together with related developments -- some planned, others de facto - at other levels of public administration and policy formation. Above all, it is the author's ample vision of past, present and future initiatives in the management of water for agriculture that provides sound credibility to his innovative questioning of available options and policy futures.
With sections on An Overview of Integrated Use of Water for Irrigation and Agriculture, Participatory Irrigation Management, managing large integrated command area development projects, drainage and salinity control, and managing watershed development, the book thus touches in a holistic manner on virtually all significant aspects of managing water for agriculture in India.
The book is an invaluable source for policy makers, academicians, practitioners and a range of analysts and commentators on water resources and agriculture in India today. It can be made an essential reading for public administrators, professors and students of water policy, agriculture and rural management, and national and international analysts of India's ongoing experiments with water management for agriculture." (jacket)