Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

N. Rajasekaran

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The session of the seminar was focused on the impact of irrigation on equity in distribution. specifically with command area and its positive externalities in various other spheres was also emphasied.

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R. S. Deshpande ¹, N. Rajasekaran ¹

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1 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, IN

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Water management in irrigated area is quite a different task as compared to that under rainfed regions. Here it becomes essentially a component of resource planning. Watershed management programmes undertaken with the government and non-governmental initiatives have shown excellent results towards resource conservation, as well as, monitoring the use rates. The present paper applies a system approach framework to analyse the impoct of watershed management in Maharashtra. The paper gives a complete framework for such analysis and discusses If case study of the National Watershed Development Programme of Maharashtra. The impact analysis helped in bringing out the positive externalities and point out towards the minimisation of entropy in the production process. The paper concludes on a need for conducive institutional structure to achieve this.

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R. S. Deshpande , N. Rajasekaran

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National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA) vas introduced during the Seventh Five Year Plan. The main objective of the programme was to stabilize the productivity in rainfed areas and to conserve as well as upgrade the land and water resources. The programme was reviewed during 1990 and fresh guidelines were issued focusing on holistic intergrated approach towards the watershed treatment components. The participation of the beneficiaries and project planning, were incorporated as the important components. It was felt necessary to review the impact of the NWDPRA on various aspects of the agricultural economy. The present study was undertaken to analyse the impact of NWDPRA on various aspects of the agricultural sector and to give a feedback for the effective implementation of the project.

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A. Narayanamoorthy , N. Rajasekaran , Deepak Shah

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Introduction of new seed-water-fertilizer technology in Indian agriculture has made greater changes in the use of machineries like pump-sets, tractors, sprayers, etc. Among the machineries, the diffusion of tractor is not uniform across the States. It is highly concentrated the areas where assured irrigation facility is available and among large farmers. But, owing to the commercialization of agriculture, the wage rate of both human and bullock labour has increased enormously in recent period.

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