Can competitive irrigation markets be catalyzed by tweaking farm power tariffs? Do subsidies to well owners 'trickle-down' to water buyers? Shah and others offer early results from an ITP field experiment...
Pro-Poor Farm Power Policy for West Bengal - II
Baseline conditions and early results
Manisha Shah, Sujata Das Chowdhury and Tushaar Shah
In July 2017, the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program (ITP) launched an action research pilot in Monoharpur village of Birbhum district. At the heart of the field pilot is the hypothesis that tweaking farm power pricing policy can boost the local agrarian economy by creating pro-poor irrigation service markets. This second of three ITP Highlights reporting results from the Monoharpur pilot outlines the baseline conditions in the village, tracks the early response of pump owners and water buyers and contemplates upcoming challenges for the study.
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