irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the allocated water are major reasons behind this paradox. Water guzzler … irrigation water available in the country. Hence if sustainable agriculture water-use has to be ensured, economics (productivity … profitability can be achieved with lesser amounts of irrigation water. This is what is attempted in this paper. The study shows that …

administration was far more successful in Java, where it introduced in 1830 a system of forced cultivation that tied local peasant … production to industrial manufacturing. A century later, India adopted the Java model in combination with farmers' cooperatives …