2017: ITP Highlight #07

Each year, India's "minor" irrigation systems irrigate twice as much area as her "major and medium" canal irrigation systems. Rajan and Verma present insights from the recently released Fifth MI Census...

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Evolving Nature of India's Irrigation Economy

Insights from the Fifth Minor Irrigation Census

Abhishek Rajan and Shilp Verma

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Despite some inconsistencies and shortcomings, data from the minor irrigation census remains by far the most reliable source of information about the critical minor irrigation economy of India. The IWMI-Tata Program has long believed that the dataset is underused, partly due to difficulty in accessing it and partly due to the dry nature of long tables used to present it. In 2014, ITP helped the Statistics Wing of the Minor Irrigation Cell bring out an analytical report based on data from the fourth minor irrigation census. This Highlight presents preliminary insights from district-level (provisional) data released for the fifth MI census.

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