Agriculture

Globally, the agricultural sector consumes about 70% of the planet’s accessible freshwater. Because water is vital for the success of agriculture, proper water management techniques are necessary to meet food and fiber material demands around the world. Resources available here pay special attention to efficient irrigation and sustainable agriculture techniques.

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Agriculture Resources

Project Completion Report of the Mae Nam Prachantakham Irrigation Project

Published: 
April 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
In order to expand paddy production, several measures have been undertaken including the introduction of high yielding varieties of paddy seeds, introduction of modern technology . and expanding the areas under irrigation. The major component of the project works consists of the construction of a...Read more
Regional focus: 
ThailandEast Asia and Pacific

IRIES -- Irrigation Impact Evaluation System: an Evaluation of the Direct and Indirect Impacts of Irrigation on Income, Employment and Health in the State of Maharashtra, India

Published: 
March 31, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
Evaluates the impact of three irrigation projects in the Indian state of Maharashtra: (1) Mula, a major project in the drought- prone Ahemednagar district; (2) Chulband, a medium-scale project in the assured rainfall district of Bhandara; and (3) Sidhanath, a small-scale project in the rainfall-...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndiaSouth East Asia

Irrigation Systems Management II: Amendment No. 2

Published: 
February 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
The project's original purpose was to rehabilitate the system and establish appropriate funding levels, funding mechanisms, and operations and maintenance procedures and practices to keep the system in its improved state. The project was designed with four components: (1) Rehabilitation Works...Read more
Regional focus: 
PakistanSouth East Asia

Water Resources Management and Training Program: Irrigation Management and Training Program -- Handbook for Improving Irrigation System Maintenance Practices

Published: 
January 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
In this handbook four maintenance plans, namely (a) essential structures maintenance, (b) normal maintenance, (c) "catch-up" maintenance, and (d) preventive maintenance, have been developed to provide guidelines to identify problems, develop solutions and implement the same for improving...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndiaSouth East Asia

Farmer - Officer Coordination to Achieve Flexible Irrigation Scheduling: A Case Study from System H, Sri Lanka

Published: 
January 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
The institutional and irrigation infrastructure of System H of the Mahaweli Multipurpose Development Project provides adequate opportunities for achieving a high standard of water management. A coordinated approach for achieving close cooperation between agency officials and farmers at the field...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sri LankaSouth East Asia

Local Organizations for Social Development: Concepts and Cases of Irrigation Organization

Published: 
January 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
In the case of large-scale gravity-flow irrigation systems, it is the state which bears the cost of capturing the water supply in remote watersheds and constructing the engineering works to store and deliver water. However, the returns from this enormous investment are ultimately determined by the...Read more
Regional focus: 
South East Asia

USAID and World Bank Workshop on Training Needs and Strategies for Irrigated Agriculture, Washington, Dc, June 1-3, 1988

Published: 
December 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
During the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage Congress at Casablanca, Morocco in September of 1987 Worth Fitzgerald of A.I.D. and Peter Sun of the Economic Development Institute (World Bank) invited a number of people to discuss the prospect of holding a "Workshop on Training...Read more

Irrigation in Asia and the Near East in the 1990'S: Problems and Prospects

Published: 
August 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Food grain production has grown at percent per year In Asia and the Near East for the past two a sharp difference of decades. At the present time there is to what the future holds for agriculture in this opinion as region. This difference of opinion is closely linked to uncertainties associated...Read more

Role of Irrigation in the Agricultural Development of Asia

Published: 
August 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Throughout Asia, irrigation has been the lead input in growth of cereal yield. In the 13 Asian nations included for analysis, all of the countries appear to lie on virtually the same irrigation/ fertilizer/HYV production function. Many observers believe that improved efficiency of water use through...Read more
Regional focus: 
South East Asia

Farm Size and Efficiency in Irrigated Agriculture: the Case of the Zimbabwe Communal Areas

Published: 
July 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
One of the principal socioeconomic issues in irrigation design is the size of holdings to be allocated to individual farm households. The major arguments for larger versus smaller plot sizes concern equity - allocating a given amount of irrigable land to larger or smaller numbers of poor farmers -...Read more
Regional focus: 
ZimbabweSub-Saharan Africa

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