Background ans constraints in water service; Case study of Kirindi Oya irrigation settlement Project Sri Lanka.

This Book Attempts An Account Of The Status Of Water Distribution, Issues Associated With Irrigation Projects, Socio-Economic And Environmental Consquences Of Maldistribution And People`S Participation In Irrigation Projects.

Contributed papers.

Rice in China; Global rice production; Physiological aspects; Pest management; Nutrient management; Water management; Farming systems; Innovative breeding; Grain quality; Machinery and postharvest; International collaboration.

Irrigation Development in Africa: Lessons of Experience is a veritable encyclopedia of information on African irrigation. It describes a significant subset of the African irrigation experience, from traditional flood recession systems to large projects like Gezira and Bura.

This book presents a comprehensive account of problems and issues associates with command area development. It is a longitudinal study where the same set of villages and households were studied at two points of time with a gap of eight years. The main thrust of the study, among other things, is on on-farm development, water management, agricultural extension and the locational advantages of a farm plot in ensuring timely and adequate supply of water.

Few studies of resource management have paid as much attention or intelligently surveyed the operational aspects of Water Users Associations (WUAs) as Institution, Technology and Water Control. Relying on ethnographic research methods, Narain takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine how institutions are shaped by technology. Calling attention to the internal organisational dynamics of the WUAs, the author argues that the emergence of institutions for collective action is shaped by technology and social relationships.