Initiating and Sustaining Water Sector Reforms: A SynthesisWorld Bank Publications, 1999 - 138 pages Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource in India. India faces an increasingly urgent situation with its finite and fragile water resources being stressed and depleted while various sectoral demands are growing rapidly. 'Initiating and Sustaining Water Sector Reforms' offers detailed solutions to this complex and important concern. |
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... agricultural extension services , this leads to low crop yields and low incomes , which in turn generate farmer dissatisfaction with the irrigation system , bureaucracy and state government . Under these conditions , water rate ...
... agricultural extension services , this leads to low crop yields and low incomes , which in turn generate farmer dissatisfaction with the irrigation system , bureaucracy and state government . Under these conditions , water rate ...
Page xviii
... agricultural power tariffs and charge volu- metrically to establish incentives for groundwater and power conservation ; • remove agricultural price and marketing distor- tions in commodity and input markets that cur- rently encourage ...
... agricultural power tariffs and charge volu- metrically to establish incentives for groundwater and power conservation ; • remove agricultural price and marketing distor- tions in commodity and input markets that cur- rently encourage ...
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... agriculture , with demands in other sectors insignificant relative to resource availability , is " India : 1997 Economic Update " ( World Bank 1 1: Current Trends, Challenges and Issues A. Introduction B. Current Trends and Developments.
... agriculture , with demands in other sectors insignificant relative to resource availability , is " India : 1997 Economic Update " ( World Bank 1 1: Current Trends, Challenges and Issues A. Introduction B. Current Trends and Developments.
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... agricultural growth and peaking at 11.6 percent in 1995-6 . This trend is resulting in a role reversal between the industrial and agri- cultural sectors as regards their relative contributions to the economy . Although agriculture ...
... agricultural growth and peaking at 11.6 percent in 1995-6 . This trend is resulting in a role reversal between the industrial and agri- cultural sectors as regards their relative contributions to the economy . Although agriculture ...
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... agricultural and overall economic development . Groundwater irri- gated area , the number of wells , and the number of energized pump sets have grown exponentially since the early 1950s . With more than 17 million energized wells ...
... agricultural and overall economic development . Groundwater irri- gated area , the number of wells , and the number of energized pump sets have grown exponentially since the early 1950s . With more than 17 million energized wells ...
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