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Furrow Dike Water Conservation Practices in the Texas High Plains

Wistrand, Glen L. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1984

Furrow diking can prevent irrigation and rainfall runoff, conserve energy use, prevent soil loss, amd allow producers …

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Technical and Economic Causes of Productivity Changes in U.S. Wheat Production, 1949-76

Bond, J. J.; Umberger, D. E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979

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Odisha Budget 2013-14: Part 1 Agriculture

Government, Orissa - eSocialSciences - 2013

Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.

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Spatial Convergence and Growth in Indian Agriculture: 1967-2010

Chaterjee, Tirtha - eSocialSciences - 2014

that infrastructure like roads, irrigation, electricity aid in growth and so do quality of human capital. Hence …

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Cast-in-Place 2-Foot Concrete Trapezoidal Flow-Measuring Flumes

Humpherys, A. S.; Bondurant, J. A. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1977

Procedures are presented for casting 50-ft3/sec trapezoidal water measurement flumes in 2-foot bottom width lined and unlined ditches. Drawings and construction details for the concrete forms used are also presented. Flumes installed in concrete-lined ditches require about 13 man-hours and cost...

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CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL WATER POLICY REFORMS: INCREASING INVESTMENT, RESOLVING CONFLICTS, AND REVISING INCENTIVES

Lohmar, Bryan; Wang, Jinxia; Rozelle, Scott; Huang, Jikun; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003

Water shortages in important grain-producing regions of China may significantly affect China's agricultural production potential and international markets. Falling ground-water tables and disruption of surface-water deliveries to important industrial and agricultural regions have provoked...

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NAC Concept Paper-A Note On Agriculture And Irrigation

Rao, C.H. Hanumantha - eSocialSciences - 2005

in Agriculture and Irrigation: (1) Augmentation of water resources for irrigation; (2) Conservation of irrigation water …

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Rural Non-Farm Employment in India: Access, Income, Farm, Poverty Impact

Lanjouw, Peter; Shariff, Abusaleh; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - eSocialSciences - 2007

Attention has been paid to the significance of the non-farm sector in the rural Indian economy since the early 1970s. The importance of earnings from secondary non-farm occupations is not well documented. In this paper an attempt is made to assess the contribution of the nonfarm sector across...

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When it Rains on the Sand Dunes

Baindur, Meera - eSocialSciences - 2007

A desert journey, from a pool where both humans and camels drank, to a bavadi then to a water tap in Khaba village has some valuable lessons about the ground realities of the social forces around water.

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Irrigation, Agrarian Change and Local Politics: in South Telengana, 1960-1996

Kumar, V. Anil - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper deals with the impact of irrigation on agrarian change and local politics in the period, 1960 to 1996 in the … from canal irrigation, strengthened the position of the dominant castes/classes, small and middle peasantry continued to … points to a policy implication: irrigation alone, without agrarian reform, cannot lead to progressive change and for more …

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