How can West Bengal tweak its farm power tariffs to make them "pro-poor"? Manisha Shah and others present findings and recommendations based on an ITP policy experiment in Birbhum...
Pro-Poor Farm Power Policy for West Bengal - III
Results of ITP's Monoharpur experiment
Manisha Shah, Sujata Das Chowdhury and Tushaar Shah
In July 2017, the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research 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. After a year of the pilot launch, this highlight, which is third in the series, brings results of the experiment on variables of interest in the study village, reports the challenges faced during course of the study and makes recommendation for policy change.
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