Agriculture and Water Management

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Agricultural and Water Managemetn after four decades of institutional and structural changes has entered into a new era with specific technology and investment, the agrarian reforms had achieved certain middle engs. Of which the provision of irrigation water for India assumes all the significance for the sustainable agricultural development. This book is 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, inpur use, hydrological etc. Further this study, tries to compare the productivity and efficiency from the users' point of view under different sources of irrigation. 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 pratical action to irrigation policy.About the AuthorDr. Sandeep Saxena who has a Ph.D degree in Botany from the University of Jodhpur is as esteemed teacher-cum-researcher. He has been consulting lecturer of many colleges of Biological Sciences, through out the country. Dr. Saxena is also contributing new research articles and manuals. He is an author of popular College Botany series and also published more than 10 research papers in National and International journals. He has travelled abroad widely presenting research papers in many International conferences.Table of ContentsPreface Irrigation Importance of Irrigation System Water Requirement by Crops Irrigation with Wastewater Wastewater use in Aquaculture Agricultural Impacts on Water Quality Planning and Managemetn of Water Resources Economics of Irrigation Service Supply Demand for Irrigation Services Role of Agriculture in Eutrophication Agricultural Water Management and Climate Risk Index