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Watershed development in India has gained momentum with a variety of agencies trying approaches to technology, costs and subsidies, and institutional arrangements. The Watershed Development Programme has three important features: Unprecedented devolution of decision-making power backed up by...
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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 …
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This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an … drought and relying on automatic adjustments through a zero marginal social net benefit condition, iii) an economically … optimal dynamic policy taking account of the threat of a drought. In particular, we show that the optimal pre-drought steady …
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The Punjab province of Pakistan, heavily dependent on river waters, is vulnerable to both excessive monsoon floods and … dry drought years. Climate Change Action Plans for Water Security provide the hallmark for developmental process in the … province of Punjab, Pakistan. These are based on the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) for Pakistan. This preparatory …
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