tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89870678614262945182024-03-05T12:48:46.147+05:30IWMI-Tata Water Policy ProgramShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-30226161121013602832018-11-30T13:17:00.000+05:302019-02-17T18:23:51.495+05:302018: ITP Highlight #06<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>In 2017, Tamil Nadu government announced <i>Kudimaramathu</i>, to revive traditional institutions for tank management and upkeep. Sakthi and Shah present an early assessment of the ambitious scheme...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Will Kudimaramathu make communities <i>Think Tanks</i> again?</h1>
<h2>
A study of tanks in transit, coping mechanism of communities and government action</h2>
<h3>
R. Sakthivadivel and Manisha Shah</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SK7170xpYSiq4VhddOvSfdxAdVZT3GR8E7QQ2nkpgyhYSzxhpg6k2hrceamvx1VLhiXe1SYrqmki5fnia_tfQcqAFYzp1sSqk-JJYqpzb7BsvZpSe8rCAwngShyphenhyphenWwjLFcU2weSY73Gv4/s1600/2018-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="652" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SK7170xpYSiq4VhddOvSfdxAdVZT3GR8E7QQ2nkpgyhYSzxhpg6k2hrceamvx1VLhiXe1SYrqmki5fnia_tfQcqAFYzp1sSqk-JJYqpzb7BsvZpSe8rCAwngShyphenhyphenWwjLFcU2weSY73Gv4/s320/2018-06.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
Like rest of Southern India, tanks in Tamil Nadu also suffered massive deterioration as irrigation moved towards being more atomistic and less community-managed. Tank institutions declined and what remained of these irrigation tanks evolved into percolation tanks. In 2017, Tamil Nadu government announced Kudimaramathu scheme to revive the age old practice of community participation in tank repair and management. The program has tried to bring farmers together to form WUAs to take up activities for tank rehabilitation but like many other programs in the country, do these institutions exist only on paper? Has the scheme managed to make groundwater irrigation sustainable for farmers? This ITP Highlight brings observations from the field, notes some best practices, and outlines areas where the program could do better.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_06_2018.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-45247745547876071172018-11-25T22:20:00.000+05:302019-02-17T18:16:59.884+05:302018: ITP Highlight #05<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>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...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Pro-Poor Farm Power Policy for West Bengal - III</h1>
<h2>
Results of ITP's Monoharpur experiment</h2>
<h3>
Manisha Shah, Sujata Das Chowdhury and Tushaar Shah</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXsyxe9GcT6ndmj32MlBVslCSfUXGwdVIXR2r70kvb-4nUVTEO5KWYd0iWROd0a8ODtFVZ2V3W7S_sdB1Y479njnns0U7mV3n4tpuqy1uDqdGNY6xhPYqxVR4YL8Bx1edYHU1NOxx0tBe/s1600/2018-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="652" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXsyxe9GcT6ndmj32MlBVslCSfUXGwdVIXR2r70kvb-4nUVTEO5KWYd0iWROd0a8ODtFVZ2V3W7S_sdB1Y479njnns0U7mV3n4tpuqy1uDqdGNY6xhPYqxVR4YL8Bx1edYHU1NOxx0tBe/s320/2018-05.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
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.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_05_2018.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-42375647176482524242018-11-20T22:02:00.000+05:302019-02-17T18:22:04.381+05:302018: ITP Highlight #04<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Driven by poor water quality, drinking water enterprises are mushrooming in many parts of India. Are these socially desirable and financially viable? Krishnamurthy and others try to answer...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
How Sustainable are Rural Water Enterprises?</h1>
<h2>
Synthesis of ITP-INREM Studies from Six States</h2>
<h3>
A. Krishnamurthy, Bharti, S. Chekuri, S. Krishnan and R. Indu <br /><i>with inputs from Harsh Dave and Shreyas S.</i></h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_7Q1jlZCYBbE1Hl1OUyO_4uhejXzfLJ4s7CwT2IMO4aH0gdktHCXZQYYTWUFXKB8fXvD_RLap8Vt5Pp8lkvXXV_o9qryF1Xa9-BARF0-UdFySQzB21GPnW5Shyphenhyphen_amEatbzV-dwJhSZFQ/s1600/2018-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1175" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_7Q1jlZCYBbE1Hl1OUyO_4uhejXzfLJ4s7CwT2IMO4aH0gdktHCXZQYYTWUFXKB8fXvD_RLap8Vt5Pp8lkvXXV_o9qryF1Xa9-BARF0-UdFySQzB21GPnW5Shyphenhyphen_amEatbzV-dwJhSZFQ/s320/2018-04.jpg" width="235" /></a></div>
Rural Drinking Water Enterprises (RDWE) have emerged as a response to water scarcity and quality problems in villages. Initially limited to pockets, now they are widespread in some states of the country. Different government policies have encouraged such enterprises as part of rural drinking water programs. Mostly using reverse osmosis technique, the enterprises are of varying nature, with some entirely community owned, some privately driven and most in the middle with a mix of social and business objectives. Our field studies found that many of these enterprises are unviable without external funds, and unsustainable without additional measures to manage their water source. No wonder most of them are performing poorly, if not folding up or lying defunct.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_04_2018.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-47457287494575430232018-11-15T22:05:00.000+05:302019-02-17T17:59:09.456+05:302018: ITP Highlight #03<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Do smallholder farmers follow a predictable journey from penury to prosperity? Is this journey well understood? Can it be mainstreamed? Can its timeline be condensed? Pastakia tries to answer...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Penury to Prosperity</h1>
<h2>
The SFPF Journey of Tribal Farmers in Dahod, Gujarat</h2>
<h3>
Astad Pastakia</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifo6NpRwz3OoD2iqF3F7x7lT-16tTXz7r_133CQRiY8eqIGF4Ldyidr3LhTPhEfzo4Vliivf962lpAMTqpJI_nJp_YJZkNORnBmCk3gdYVoI2BGRY1UeFbTNeLWVaDy8juu_h2E_x_Fjiv/s1600/2018-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1175" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifo6NpRwz3OoD2iqF3F7x7lT-16tTXz7r_133CQRiY8eqIGF4Ldyidr3LhTPhEfzo4Vliivf962lpAMTqpJI_nJp_YJZkNORnBmCk3gdYVoI2BGRY1UeFbTNeLWVaDy8juu_h2E_x_Fjiv/s320/2018-03.jpg" width="235" /></a></div>
N.M. Sadguru Water and Development Foundation’s work in tribal areas of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh is world renowned. Over more than four decades, NMSWDF has been working to improve the livelihoods of small, tribal farmers through their irrigation, watershed, agriculture and other livelihood interventions. As part of IWMI-Tata Program’s ‘<i>Small Farmer, Prosperous Farmer</i>’ (SFPF) initiative, this ITP Highlight tries to understand the development trajectory followed by NMSWDF farmers in Dahod with a view to draw policy lessons for mainstreaming smallholder prosperity, especially in the tribal context. It recommends a four-step replicable model – focusing on water security, crop stabilization, crop diversification and specialization – that can be implemented in less than a decade, depending on the initial conditions.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_03_2018.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-76798206387264229382018-07-25T23:24:00.000+05:302018-07-28T11:53:25.813+05:302018: ITP Highlight #02<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>IWMI-Tata Program's solar experiment in Dhundi has received a lot of positive media and policy attention. Verma, Durga and Shah respond to a recent critique of the experiment published in EPW...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Solar Irrigation Pumps and India’s Energy-Irrigation Nexus</h1>
<h2>
Rejoinder to Sahasranaman <i>et al</i>. (2018). Economic & Political Weekly, 53(21): 65-68.</h2>
<h3>
Shilp Verma, Neha Durga and Tushaar Shah</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPgRsc1iRa9HmKP4Ilvad_XKA6Q0XAgqJK2JVlwatz5TYmQUE_TbYuCCG8sGD8LDABsqP26pP9_RqZ8thyphenhyphenP0GKPzgBU74x_2803PPyIlPdtj0uY12PSD6UaP9x8HTf6fsoBbwhKBBJ8ZX1/s1600/2018-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1175" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPgRsc1iRa9HmKP4Ilvad_XKA6Q0XAgqJK2JVlwatz5TYmQUE_TbYuCCG8sGD8LDABsqP26pP9_RqZ8thyphenhyphenP0GKPzgBU74x_2803PPyIlPdtj0uY12PSD6UaP9x8HTf6fsoBbwhKBBJ8ZX1/s320/2018-02.jpg" width="235" /></a></div>
In their article, “Solar Irrigation Cooperatives: Creating the Frankenstein's Monster for India's Groundwater”, Sahasranaman <i>et al</i>. (2018) erroneously conclude that, “<i>the Dhundi pilot… is an experiment that has gone terribly wrong</i>”. While the article is full of miscalculations and internal inconsistencies, as fellow researchers, we welcome their critique. In the first half of this rejoinder, we offer clarifications so that readers can make a proper assessment of the Dhundi experiment. In the second half, we reiterate our vision of the critical role that solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) can play in India's agriculture future by projecting likely consequences of alternate policy scenarios.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_02_2018.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-86737768113445564812018-07-06T14:15:00.000+05:302018-07-06T14:20:36.507+05:302018: ITP Highlight #01<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>ITP-WLE-CCAFS's field pilot in Dhundi has inspired the Government of India to include grid-connected solar pumps in its plans for KUSUM. Shah explores what it would take to effectively implement the scheme...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Kick-starting KUSUM (<i>Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahaabhiyan</i>)</h1>
<h2>
</h2>
<h3>
Tushaar Shah</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYrs6z7_ZHuYE8XcJMumWb2TNP5ual0O5IvZKT7gmMm6dzzjupkUowqvv5nI7XXSNtSnE9022AUUzQIlKBMU9N8QPJdNzQJfAb3jmVJIzI63aUpUmjVP3iDKRsxagB1pcrcmC3ZzjM8vBe/s1600/2018-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYrs6z7_ZHuYE8XcJMumWb2TNP5ual0O5IvZKT7gmMm6dzzjupkUowqvv5nI7XXSNtSnE9022AUUzQIlKBMU9N8QPJdNzQJfAb3jmVJIzI63aUpUmjVP3iDKRsxagB1pcrcmC3ZzjM8vBe/s320/2018-01.jpg" width="241" /></a>
The Union Budget 2018 announced <i>Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahaabhiyan</i> (KUSUM), a prodigious ₹140,000 crore scheme to replace diesel pumps and grid-connected electric tubewells for irrigation by solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) with a buy-back arrangement for farmers' surplus solar energy at a remunerative price. KUSUM can be a game changer. It can check groundwater over-exploitation, offer farmers day-time uninterrupted power supply, reduce carbon footprint of agriculture, curtail farm power subsidy burden and, most of all, provide a new source of risk-free income for farmers. However, for kick-starting KUSUM, Government of India needs to propose a well-articulated implementation strategy. We explore what this might be.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_01_2018.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-34009239624477919032017-12-20T15:42:00.000+05:302018-05-23T17:07:28.359+05:302017: ITP Highlight #08<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Named after the influential Kakatiya dynasty, Telangana's ambitious mission to de-silt more than 45,000 tanks promises major benefits. But will the positive impacts sustain? Manisha Shah and others explore...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Reviving Minor Irrigation in Telangana</h1>
<h2>
Midterm Assessment of Mission Kakatiya</h2>
<h3>
Manisha Shah, Bharti and Shilp Verma</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDFnq39OBinMENQ3O5ASIl_h5UFB5dExIGy276seFvzVEuyOI5J2pEEgLmql2eYhljK_ns5aEDPdaokjyvgay8iCyuAkwKaSY808jtec_ct3o-GEf0Keq2ED3N-oKEnRe_fw4pogrn_sx/s1600/2017-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="642" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDFnq39OBinMENQ3O5ASIl_h5UFB5dExIGy276seFvzVEuyOI5J2pEEgLmql2eYhljK_ns5aEDPdaokjyvgay8iCyuAkwKaSY808jtec_ct3o-GEf0Keq2ED3N-oKEnRe_fw4pogrn_sx/s1600/2017-08.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>
<br />
Mission Kakatiya is the flagship program of government of Telangana, a state whose formation itself was catalysed by perceived regional injustices in water distribution for irrigation. Launched in 2014, the mission aims to harness benefits of tank irrigation by increasing command area, water supply for irrigation and opportunities for agriculture. Based on multiple field studies, this Highlight presents a midterm assessment of the project’s impact on increasing irrigated area, farmers’ incomes, groundwater recharge, opportunities for agriculture and associated livelihoods and shares insights on improving implementation and maximizing net positive benefits.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_08_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-36706263141577359482017-12-15T15:45:00.000+05:302018-05-23T17:06:07.910+05:302017: ITP Highlight #07<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>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...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Evolving Nature of India's Irrigation Economy</h1>
<h2>
Insights from the Fifth Minor Irrigation Census</h2>
<h3>
Abhishek Rajan and Shilp Verma</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFl18fjJE9F5ekjC4SoDS2bbhiXw2LmWLq7hXHWFi6McrGN4DrEibHDv2Pa49IB3WlVGjwGEmmYRDGgqZmKYx3xnTu5zQrnYLfUFwTUoL370k9nuZsD41b_Ua0PqoQc-h3swl2VaC-HcB/s1600/2017-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="642" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFl18fjJE9F5ekjC4SoDS2bbhiXw2LmWLq7hXHWFi6McrGN4DrEibHDv2Pa49IB3WlVGjwGEmmYRDGgqZmKYx3xnTu5zQrnYLfUFwTUoL370k9nuZsD41b_Ua0PqoQc-h3swl2VaC-HcB/s1600/2017-07.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>
<br />
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.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_07_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-44445952192993195752017-12-10T16:40:00.000+05:302018-02-16T10:55:10.421+05:302017: ITP Highlight #06<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Municipal wastewater from Jammu and Srinagar irrigates more than 6,000 ha and contributes to farm receipts worth US$ 22 m. Shaheen explores how things are different in J&K vis-à-vis rest of India...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Wastewater Irrigation in Jammu and Kashmir</h1>
<h2>
An exploration</h2>
<h3>
F.A. Shaheen</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQ2Hns_FYd65ssP40hFbIQE9uxTjVhpiePZ7RKw3sywO580ZPhHewOWRNQwoJWBrHUJiRMexe7dhkhTQo6kWVdDXQ1BBpHr_eLHjIjR_5kQRmm-ketALO6eZJZBW108AXUn2xnTFFe7wY/s1600/2017-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="642" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQ2Hns_FYd65ssP40hFbIQE9uxTjVhpiePZ7RKw3sywO580ZPhHewOWRNQwoJWBrHUJiRMexe7dhkhTQo6kWVdDXQ1BBpHr_eLHjIjR_5kQRmm-ketALO6eZJZBW108AXUn2xnTFFe7wY/s320/2017-06.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>
<br />
More than 25-30 per cent of the water in the canals and field channels across Jammu and Srinagar is wastewater from urban areas. Interestingly, while wastewater irrigation has resulted in increased crop yields owing to high nutrient content in Maharashtra and Karnataka, research in J&K found no perceptible difference in crop yields. Could this be due to the degree of mixed wastewater in the canals and field channels? Based on field research in and around Srinagar and Jammu, this Highlight tracks the current status of wastewater generation; extent of its use by downstream farmers; and the perceived health risks associated with wastewater use in agriculture.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_06_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-35195038073994620512017-11-30T16:23:00.000+05:302018-02-15T16:29:43.971+05:302017: ITP Highlight #05<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>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...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Pro-Poor Farm Power Policy for West Bengal - II</h1>
<h2>
Baseline conditions and early results</h2>
<h3>
Manisha Shah, Sujata Das Chowdhury and Tushaar Shah</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwG47dpA1hNi-8TtAkbpdjxbWLUYE_pUbMiyP2sIOEffXWTGWHzG62LwSWn9XaUZujqBip7UVaigymclP9sbaEaC1f4ETyyHkYdQ1q35j-wc-97VInnnuTsluJ9zE42fjr6s1hW0vqYco/s1600/2017-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="652" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwG47dpA1hNi-8TtAkbpdjxbWLUYE_pUbMiyP2sIOEffXWTGWHzG62LwSWn9XaUZujqBip7UVaigymclP9sbaEaC1f4ETyyHkYdQ1q35j-wc-97VInnnuTsluJ9zE42fjr6s1hW0vqYco/s320/2017-05.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
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.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_05_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-43039612181635831202017-11-20T11:00:00.000+05:302017-11-20T11:53:45.054+05:302017: ITP Highlight #04<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Climate change threatens increased frequency and intensity of droughts; how are farmers coping? Palanisami and Kumar speak to 120 farmers in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to find out...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Drought proofing strategies by farmers in Southern India</h1>
<br />
<h3>
K. Palanisami and D. Suresh Kumar</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8y_arl1MPGQaLg7Y4P5sFlgJKNVjV5CrkSI2qJ-XFizGZdVMHRC0GxDYjp7CEgwLoV9vWXCBLwVhK3WjzGEwz6-Ba121avo1d7fLRHm3sTbroNZc1BexwLQlbAcQzw75IggfE-vcjoh6k/s1600/2017-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8y_arl1MPGQaLg7Y4P5sFlgJKNVjV5CrkSI2qJ-XFizGZdVMHRC0GxDYjp7CEgwLoV9vWXCBLwVhK3WjzGEwz6-Ba121avo1d7fLRHm3sTbroNZc1BexwLQlbAcQzw75IggfE-vcjoh6k/s1600/2017-04.jpg" width="249" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: left;">Droughts are a common occurrence in semi-arid areas and their frequency and intensity is expected to increase with climate change. Based on a study of 120 farmers from four districts in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, this Highlight surveys the range of measures farmers adopt in response to droughts. The authors find that despite significant negative externalities, farmers assign higher priority to drilling new wells rather than investing in water conservation structures or demand management strategies. The authors estimate that adoption of drip irrigation and purchase of tanker water for
providing life-saving irrigation yield the highest financial returns and suggest considering reuse of municipal waste water as a drought mitigation strategy.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_04_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-84670539821578702752017-11-15T00:00:00.000+05:302017-11-20T11:54:43.730+05:302017: ITP Highlight #03<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>What does literacy have to do with sanitation and child stunting? ITP <a href="https://www.weltwaerts.de/en/" target="_blank">weltwärts</a> volunteer Laura Wilhelm argues that female education should be an integral part of India's <i>Swachh Bharat</i> strategy...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Sanitation, Female Literacy and Child Stunting</h1>
<h2>
Lessons for <i>Swachh Bharat</i> Mission</h2>
<h3>
Laura Patrizia Wilhelm</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsQIE1UYKe-2jkYWluiX65yDe9TXzOXBEY2Kk9AHVwuC1p19WpukhjO5VRWd-ZAwzlbbcEcJPSWj5PU2nGGHTYc2EJM2W-FbuhneUKQHItncKLEFyx_TwkQodsbsERB5ci3EWaNAlwOZwh/s1600/2017-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="452" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsQIE1UYKe-2jkYWluiX65yDe9TXzOXBEY2Kk9AHVwuC1p19WpukhjO5VRWd-ZAwzlbbcEcJPSWj5PU2nGGHTYc2EJM2W-FbuhneUKQHItncKLEFyx_TwkQodsbsERB5ci3EWaNAlwOZwh/s1600/2017-03.jpg" width="238" /></a>
<span style="text-align: left;">Some recent studies in India and elsewhere have suggested a positive correlation between open defecation and child stunting. Improving children's health is one of the primary
motivations behind India's <i>Swachh Bharat</i> Mission under which the government is trying to eliminate open defecation by investing heavily in the construction of toilets. Through analysis of secondary data, this Highlight shows that female literacy has a more significant correlation with child stunting and calls for appropriate policy focus on educating women, especially on health, nutrition and hygiene.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_03_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-2722271493279234852017-10-04T16:22:00.000+05:302017-10-07T03:57:58.750+05:302017: ITP Highlight # 02<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>India has invested heavily in irrigation for agrarian prosperity. Has this strategy worked? How much does irrigation contribute to the value of crop and milk output? Goswami and others try to find out...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Irrigation and India's Crop-Milk Agrarian Economy</h1>
<h2>
A simple recursive model and some early results</h2>
<div>
<h3>
Alankrita Goswami, Abhishek Rajan, Shilp Verma and Tushaar Shah</h3>
</div>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIClkMB8ETErYcFJIX_VawDsyLF9bJf_Fb9RiJ8XEaYIfSFGcq2s6EofEjin1v8AsWY36HLUlPi3OqhR65T99GOAuR61FErlbdTfwybjklDuO5FVKsH3F6aZlxJzTl082aN8pK24x7E-2/s1600/2017-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIClkMB8ETErYcFJIX_VawDsyLF9bJf_Fb9RiJ8XEaYIfSFGcq2s6EofEjin1v8AsWY36HLUlPi3OqhR65T99GOAuR61FErlbdTfwybjklDuO5FVKsH3F6aZlxJzTl082aN8pK24x7E-2/s320/2017-02.jpg" width="249" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: left;">Irrigation is central to India's crop-milk mixed farming system. This explains why over three-quarter of public investments in accelerating agrarian growth are devoted to irrigation. Despite massive investments in irrigation development, there are hardly any systematic assessments of irrigation impact on aggregate output. Our eight-equation recursive model is one such effort that uses district-level data to outline the impact of water applied under different irrigation regimes – canals, groundwater, and others – on crop and dairy output. We find that while India's ₹10 trillion crop-milk economy remains significantly rainfed (45%), groundwater accounts for about 38% of the economy while despite cornering bulk of the public investments, canals contribute less than 10%. Our model also shows that groundwater irrigation is associated with higher area under high value crops and herd-efficiency ratio. Thus, addition of one groundwater structure adds close to ₹215,000 to the gross value of crop-milk output of a district. This Highlight describes the model and, under a set of assumptions, simulates different scenarios.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_02_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-4568925504148958952017-10-02T16:21:00.000+05:302017-10-07T03:54:06.168+05:302017: ITP Highlight # 01<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Farmers in West Bengal pay more for farm power than any of their counterparts across South Asia. This is bad for well owners but even worse for water buyers. Shah and others discuss a way to fix this...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Pro-Poor Farm Power Policy for West Bengal</h1>
<h2>
Analytical background for a Policy Pilot</h2>
<div>
<h3>
Manisha Shah, Sujata Das Chowdhury and Tushaar Shah</h3>
</div>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMcT6Ck7sByacJ9lxL_AbzecM1v3zCKpcYMZ9OhDiwjAEF7uw6AOZOwgwWlS-V70t2rjv3eTIJuZMNRms6pIcSGVmSh3fs0Am0B0T5IBZpBJ_ZCSD8IrY9eeVzJD0DaBAuNnBg00aiSPX/s1600/2017-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="587" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMcT6Ck7sByacJ9lxL_AbzecM1v3zCKpcYMZ9OhDiwjAEF7uw6AOZOwgwWlS-V70t2rjv3eTIJuZMNRms6pIcSGVmSh3fs0Am0B0T5IBZpBJ_ZCSD8IrY9eeVzJD0DaBAuNnBg00aiSPX/s320/2017-01.jpg" width="234" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: left;">For two decades, agricultural growth in West Bengal was stifled by a perverse and restrictive permit system that made it difficult, costly and time-consuming for farmers to get electricity connection for a tubewell. In 2011, through a radical move, liberalization of permits made it easier, cheaper and quicker for farmers to install electric tubewells. Increased tubewell density increased irrigation access to well owners as well as water buyers. However, a parallel policy of metering electric tubewells and charging farmers commercial tariff all but nullified gains to water buyers who have to surrender the bulk of the irrigation surplus as water price. This Highlight proposes that the farm power pricing policy can be tweaked to make West Bengal's water markets pro-poor and outlines the hypothesis underlying a pilot project ITP has initiated in Monoharpur village of Birbhum district.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_01_2017.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-80881500140849158312017-09-30T12:45:00.000+05:302017-10-07T03:49:58.850+05:30DSUUSM: Bi-Annual Progress Report, 2015-17<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>As part of an ITP-CCAFS research pilot, a solar pump irrigators' cooperative was registered in early 2016. Having completed one year of grid-connected operations, the farmers report their progress...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
<b>Dhundi Solar Energy Producers' Cooperative Society</b></h1>
<h2 style="font-size: 150%;">
First Bi-Annual Progress Report, 2015-17</h2>
<h3>
Dhundi Saur Urja Utpadak Sahakari Mandali (DSUUSM), Kheda, Gujarat</h3>
<hr />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQhxtT4tbWAS22GNkeyyyZs__2HNyfpVVnJsjrImJ4uGgrOfGrCAiIDAxO5AfgKI0ezyc-GW5x_QN30QqZvNPoMny8FYpF8NSLsoC6Vw7eT-VFqcgXJY3LGUtUkKp4-NpLfVNMAyH2KUe/s1600/DSUUSM_PR_Eng.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="707" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQhxtT4tbWAS22GNkeyyyZs__2HNyfpVVnJsjrImJ4uGgrOfGrCAiIDAxO5AfgKI0ezyc-GW5x_QN30QqZvNPoMny8FYpF8NSLsoC6Vw7eT-VFqcgXJY3LGUtUkKp4-NpLfVNMAyH2KUe/s320/DSUUSM_PR_Eng.png" width="256" /></a></div>
In 2015, IWMI-Tata Program and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) started an action-research project on 'Climate Smart Agriculture'. As part of the project, it was decided to establish climate-smart agricultural practices and catalyze local institutions that can sustain the practices long after the project is over. After exploring several villages, Dhundi village in Kheda district of Gujarat was selected for the pilot.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYqzv4zLfY3CYHWJzZh656BXOv-FmQJOAVjfbxtqSk4uk314W3VTh7HUTj1HLQCLWcXJfdrAYDkFhGtrD1vS_fMv3o0glX4Tv7PuLSh4AU-59Na726cGCSYrVHmgC1tYSG-xeJYgPLx2H/s1600/DSUUSM_PR_Guj.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="708" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYqzv4zLfY3CYHWJzZh656BXOv-FmQJOAVjfbxtqSk4uk314W3VTh7HUTj1HLQCLWcXJfdrAYDkFhGtrD1vS_fMv3o0glX4Tv7PuLSh4AU-59Na726cGCSYrVHmgC1tYSG-xeJYgPLx2H/s320/DSUUSM_PR_Guj.png" width="256" /></a>For a village in central Gujarat, Dhundi is atypical since all 50 irrigation pumps in the village, except one, are powered by diesel. After initial discussions with villagers, ITP decided to offer 6 farmers solar irrigation pumps at nearly 90 per cent subsidy; the pumps were installed on the farmers' fields in December 2015 and a local micro-grid connecting all the pumps to a central point was also commissioned. In February 2016, the <i>Dhundi Saur Urja Utpadak Sahakari Mandali</i> (DSUUSM) was formally registered. On 2<sup>nd</sup> May 2016, the cooperative entered into a Power Purchase Agreement with the local electricity distribution company - <i>Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited</i> (MGVCL). As part of the 25-year agreement, MGVCL agreed to buy solar power from DSUUSM at a feed-in-tariff of ₹4.63/kWh; the member farmers agreed not to apply for farm connections for subsidized grid-power and also agreed to pay ₹9.26/kWh for any electricity imported from the grid, accidentally or otherwise. The cooperative's micro-grid was connected to the local electricity grid and surplus power evacuation started on 10<sup>th</sup> May 2016. The attached report summarizes the operations of the cooperative since its inception in 2015.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzhx0NjntKlBaFBSUVJkcUJhaHc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">ENGLISH PDF»</a></b></div>
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzhx0NjntKlBcGt5OUN5WU53akk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">GUJARATI PDF»</a></b><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
</div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-23145375221049843202017-03-03T15:29:00.005+05:302017-10-07T03:49:15.798+05:30ITP Video: The Promise of Dhundi Solar Pump Irrigators' Cooperative<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser style="text-align: left;">ITP has argued for a solar irrigation promotion strategy that encourages farmers to grow 'solar power' as a remunerative crop. This ITP-CCAFS video discusses an action-research pilot that demonstrates this idea...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
The Promise of Dhundi Solar Pump Irrigators' Cooperative</h1>
<h2>
ITP and CCAFS</h2>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a>In early 2016, the world's first Solar Pump Irrigators' Cooperative Enterprise (SPICE) began operations in Dhundi village of Kheda district in Gujarat. Members of this cooperative are using solar power not only to run their irrigation pumps, but also pooling the surplus energy to sell to the Madhya Gujarat Vij Company (MGVCL) under a 25-year power purchase agreement.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLG4RvXTBVYeGcOfZG-l4GD8qxFBNOPstQH4HYhbFoQ3aB3IWimu-ILT1XO_QqJTlYi85sBpVSLokzmBxnw_i2moXDZCp2em2-1M2abfRq0UKkoDjmu3BLrDeZ5BCeSSVCVaTyZTBM1ES/s1600/ccafs+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLG4RvXTBVYeGcOfZG-l4GD8qxFBNOPstQH4HYhbFoQ3aB3IWimu-ILT1XO_QqJTlYi85sBpVSLokzmBxnw_i2moXDZCp2em2-1M2abfRq0UKkoDjmu3BLrDeZ5BCeSSVCVaTyZTBM1ES/s320/ccafs+logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
Promoted by the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program (ITP) and supported through a generous grant by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the cooperative was set up to demonstrate a novel model of promoting solar irrigation by incentivizing farmers to conserve energy and water; while at the same time, offering them an additional, stable source of climate-proof income. By December 2016, the 6-member, 56.4-kWp capacity cooperative had already earned more than Rs. 160,000 from sale of surplus energy.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SneJ3plzz5I/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="532" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SneJ3plzz5I?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SneJ3plzz5I" target="_blank">Watch on YouTube »</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-84913192076529560142016-12-31T00:00:00.000+05:302017-01-04T22:19:36.311+05:302016: ITP Highlight # 10<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>With support from CCAFS, the IWMI-Tata Program has piloted the world's first solar irrigation cooperative. Shah and others discuss the idea, its objectives, early performance and potential...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Solar Power as Remunerative Crop</h1>
<h2>
</h2>
<h3>
Tushaar Shah, Neha Durga, Shilp Verma and Rahul Rathod</h3>
<hr />
<br />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8iRQtRxFgsMFjHh-cfx92NtvBdsizhW58x-3QeTo9_s3ZrSUS5-CYNYYSAIFe83mu693k-ei3yFJ1VTXyotP91PIamt7r82VplBoAVbprIpXLffX-NoZaLgrkJNkFpA-0ts7Wxp98_qM/s1600/Highlight-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhthw3TJniPi502NI5FE6brY2iG4rCK6EH2ez1nWjQt6znvGitMFFpIP3U2arhDYTdJidaAct3e6bvdGv7k66ngVASquFZHimBC1WMUsfhawXm2OY4B8GaJxSA0odjOM4qydo-iswVPjWEI/s1600/2016-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhthw3TJniPi502NI5FE6brY2iG4rCK6EH2ez1nWjQt6znvGitMFFpIP3U2arhDYTdJidaAct3e6bvdGv7k66ngVASquFZHimBC1WMUsfhawXm2OY4B8GaJxSA0odjOM4qydo-iswVPjWEI/s320/2016-10.jpg" width="237" /></a></div>
Anand, the small Gujarat town that gave India its dairy cooperative movement, has now spawned a new cooperative that may well grow into a genre of its own. The Dhundi Solar Pump Irrigators' Cooperative Enterprise (SPICE) provides the proof of concept for promoting Solar Power as a Remunerative Crop (SPaRC). We argue that SPaRC presents the best chance of taming western India's groundwater anarchy, of improving the finances of power distribution companies, of curtailing the carbon footprint of our agriculture and of creating a new, risk-free source of serious cash income for India's farmers.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_10_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-40672391877216859652016-10-30T00:00:00.000+05:302016-11-16T00:15:39.510+05:302016: ITP Highlight # 09<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>ITP field studies found nearly 40,000 ha. of wastewater irrigation in Maharashtra generating cash profits worth US$ 70 million. Palrecha and others describe this rapidly growing peri-urban economy...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Wastewater Irrigation in Maharashtra</h1>
<h2>
An exploration</h2>
<div>
<h3>
Alka Palrecha, Nihal Sakhare, Shraddha Patkar, Shraddha Sule, Sancy Sebastian and Mukta Ramola</h3>
</div>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbPeHWS7xx8_axHDW5ir2C850GAG4KOKS33bYggIfNQ7bCa9-OJmw2nApWWSQpzI0egrquCzSUSYXSqETTTSY_7WOKEcWGrpIi5cn4ewuviVpqapfvXJywqEtaS9ggiZ_-wkfSr-kmEcg/s1600/Highlight-09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbPeHWS7xx8_axHDW5ir2C850GAG4KOKS33bYggIfNQ7bCa9-OJmw2nApWWSQpzI0egrquCzSUSYXSqETTTSY_7WOKEcWGrpIi5cn4ewuviVpqapfvXJywqEtaS9ggiZ_-wkfSr-kmEcg/s320/Highlight-09.jpg" width="230" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8iRQtRxFgsMFjHh-cfx92NtvBdsizhW58x-3QeTo9_s3ZrSUS5-CYNYYSAIFe83mu693k-ei3yFJ1VTXyotP91PIamt7r82VplBoAVbprIpXLffX-NoZaLgrkJNkFpA-0ts7Wxp98_qM/s1600/Highlight-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div>
Wastewater irrigation is not new in Maharashtra and the Government of Maharashtra as well as farmers are beginning to recognize its value as a drought response. This Highlight presents a synthesis of field explorations in 11 locations in Maharashtra which cover the extent of wastewater irrigation; economics of wastewater and freshwater use; farmers'
preferences and perceptions about wastewater; and how they are adapting to its use in agriculture.
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_09_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-59919298689635838602016-10-15T00:00:00.000+05:302016-11-16T00:12:55.302+05:302016: ITP Highlight # 08<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>An old practice that was once used to keep out Genghis Khan's marauding army is being revived in Ladakh; this time to fight climate change. Shaheen discusses how...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
The Art of Glacier Grafting</h1>
<h2>
Innovative water harvesting techniques in Ladakh</h2>
<div>
<h3>
F.A. Shaheen</h3>
</div>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSJOvLXkePFGeiw8H0cmu4UwVugQPWIdewA_eU-pdmj42yJ0qzbdwP8iVmTteyABC0bbNZdz_-d2iuTBJNvGT09MSvqY4eT_pbbTgYEAZW4kNbtbz6Kb8BTqrJinMuZ9mapfAwZurZNt1/s1600/Highlight-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSJOvLXkePFGeiw8H0cmu4UwVugQPWIdewA_eU-pdmj42yJ0qzbdwP8iVmTteyABC0bbNZdz_-d2iuTBJNvGT09MSvqY4eT_pbbTgYEAZW4kNbtbz6Kb8BTqrJinMuZ9mapfAwZurZNt1/s320/Highlight-08.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>
As a cold desert with extreme climate and limited precipitation, Ladakh struggles to meet its irrigation requirements. In recent years, a historical practice of grafting glaciers and a new innovative technique of building '<i>ice stupa</i>' has helped communities improve irrigation access and extend the crop calendar. This Highlight looks at how combining sound science with credible local knowledge is helping people improve climate resilience.
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_08_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-21584663911493071822016-07-25T08:06:00.000+05:302017-10-04T16:18:35.788+05:30ITP Video: Wastewater Bazaar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser style="text-align: left;">Indian cities generate more than 40,000 million liters of wastewater everyday; enough to irrigate more than 2 mha of farmland each year. This ITP-PiC video captures an institutional innovation in wastewater management...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Wastewater <i>Bazaar</i></h1>
<h2>
IWMI-Tata Program and People-in-Centre Consulting</h2>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJeJM3-2Hzk3sPxXvcH32V5NoXe71eTjnlWq52GBiPOeBSeWfO0vVkfh38DMdhsGjnUCQu2d7332-8LuJxmngiKr7pQU15Z5kPW7ayV5Z8ye4Rlk2J1-xT-iVhr1PmyhoodURqjNeVFq6/s1600/WW+Bazaar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJeJM3-2Hzk3sPxXvcH32V5NoXe71eTjnlWq52GBiPOeBSeWfO0vVkfh38DMdhsGjnUCQu2d7332-8LuJxmngiKr7pQU15Z5kPW7ayV5Z8ye4Rlk2J1-xT-iVhr1PmyhoodURqjNeVFq6/s320/WW+Bazaar.jpg" width="320" /></a>As India urbanizes, it will have to find better ways of dealing with its municipal wastewater. Our current capacity to treat urban wastewater is less than 30 per cent of generation and even this capacity is under-utilized. Municipalities view wastewater as a headache; large treatment plants, where they exist, often act merely as wastewater accumulators since municipalities do not have finances to operate and maintain these energy-guzzling units. As a result, wastewater if often released downstream without any treatment. This also explains why most rivers that run through big cities start to look and smell like drains.<br />
<br />
In semi-arid north Gujarat's Unjha town, the municipality has found a novel way of managing its wastewater. Peri-urban farmers realize that wastewater is rich with nutrient content and are willing to pay for it. The municipality auctions its wastewater to the highest bidder who, in turn, delivers it to farmers at a price. Wastewater is a perennial and reliable source for irrigation water, reduces farmers' expenditure on fertilizers and is highly productive.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qZUxptX1018/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="532" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qZUxptX1018?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe>
<br />
<br />
<div class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZUxptX1018" target="_blank">Watch on YouTube »</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-44763251107107561372016-07-01T15:58:00.000+05:302016-08-22T14:17:37.574+05:30June 2016: IWMI-Tata Policy Paper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>On 30<sup>th</sup> May, ITP organized a half-day policy consultation at the India Habitat Center in New Delhi. In this IWMI-Tata Policy Paper, Shah and others propose an alternative vision for PMKSY...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
<b>HAR KHET KO PANI</b></h1>
<h1 style="font-size: 150%;">
(Water to Every Farm)</h1>
<h2>
Rethinking Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY)</h2>
<h3>
Tushaar Shah, Shilp Verma, Neha Durga, Abhishek Rajan, Alankrita Goswami and Alka Palrecha</h3>
<hr />
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLHMPtgzg-wdF13Vox0J3puWh0MgTQklIzBBZIX_9hVyZnpveGhjx5frUIo3BzK0fEItvOWYhN_-6Ghd0J0Av0agstm2IXECgHrWIl3RSIl-nznGBVxwo-X2ZEC4O_z7IkDyGbr_yIjDcw/s1600/PMKSY+Cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLHMPtgzg-wdF13Vox0J3puWh0MgTQklIzBBZIX_9hVyZnpveGhjx5frUIo3BzK0fEItvOWYhN_-6Ghd0J0Av0agstm2IXECgHrWIl3RSIl-nznGBVxwo-X2ZEC4O_z7IkDyGbr_yIjDcw/s400/PMKSY+Cover.png" width="300" /></a></div>
In its manifesto for 2014 parliamentary elections, Bharatiya Janta Party gave pride of place to universalizing irrigation access by including "<i>Har Hath Ko Kam, Har Khet Ko Pani</i>" as one of its commitments. After the NDA government came to power, this commitment took the form of <i>Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana</i> with an allocation of ₹ 50,000 crore over 2015-2020 period with an additional ₹ 20,000 crore placed at the disposal of NABARD. As currently designed, PMKSY has four components: Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Program (₹ 11,060 crore), 'per drop, more crop' component (₹ 16,300 crore) to support micro irrigation, watershed program (₹ 13,590 crore) and a new component called <i>Har Khet Ko Pani</i> (₹ 9,050 crore) to construct one water harvesting structure per village by 2020. The implementation of PMKSY was to be kicked off with the preparation of District Irrigation Plans (DIPs) by state governments using a format provided by Government of India. Some 240 district plans are apparently ready although only Chhattisgarh and Nagaland have placed their DIPs in public domain.<br />
<br />
Is PMKSY on the right path? Does it have the potential to deliver <i>Har Khet Ko Pani</i>? Does it reflect the current irrigation reality of India? Is there a better way to design and implement PMKSY to target effort and resources where it matters most? This IWMI-Tata Policy Paper offers an early analysis to help implement a better PMKSY with greater potential for socio-economic and livelihood impacts.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi_tata_pmksy_policy_paper_june_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-22549351177351503392016-05-24T07:38:00.000+05:302016-06-26T07:52:49.763+05:302016: ITP Highlight # 07<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Prosopis is an invasive species that causes environmental and socio-economic damage. Sakthivadivel discusses its spread in Tamil Nadu's tanks and the strategies local communities are adopting to get rid of it...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
<i>
Prosopis Juliflora</i> in the Irrigation Tanks of Tamil Nadu</h1>
<div>
<h3>
R. Sakthivadivel</h3>
</div>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQo1vjYzop6rWwFI7kZ4qUbip7eU8R_lXVUPIOg65mpLHXLw9lNfOZ61FPXxsTb5ZuyKtHblz5awp5Xh9MilkmGEwDn6OnKXUOzrL7y6E9YRCeK7VQEpyR33k_YB2a7MNptRtIDK4IGjFt/s1600/Highlight-07.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQo1vjYzop6rWwFI7kZ4qUbip7eU8R_lXVUPIOg65mpLHXLw9lNfOZ61FPXxsTb5ZuyKtHblz5awp5Xh9MilkmGEwDn6OnKXUOzrL7y6E9YRCeK7VQEpyR33k_YB2a7MNptRtIDK4IGjFt/s320/Highlight-07.png" width="230" /></a></div>
Introduced as an alternative for fuel wood, <i>Prosopis juliflora</i> has become established as an invasive weed in India and many parts of Asia and Africa. In our exploration, we found that most villagers know that <i>P. juliflora</i> sucks groundwater through its deep roots; creates health problems like asthma and respiratory diseases; acts as an excellent hiding place for robbers, wild boars and stray dogs; prevents desiltation of tanks and essentially sounds the death knell for tank irrigation. Some farmers even attribute reduction in rainfall to pervasive <i>prosopis</i> infestation. However, getting rid of it is not easy and villagers' response to infestation varies depending on the economic benefits they derive out of it. This Highlight looks at the spread of <i>P. juliflora</i> in Tamil Nadu with a view to understanding: [a] its impact on irrigation; and [b] various mitigation strategies adopted by communities.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_07_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-7954127378484836202016-05-10T10:46:00.000+05:302016-06-26T08:03:12.804+05:302016: ITP Highlight # 06<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>Farmer groups, collectives, cooperatives and companies are promoted with huge expectations but very few of them actually become viable and sustainable business entities. Shah explores why... </teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Farmer Producer Companies</h1>
<div>
<h2>
Fermenting New Wine for New Bottles</h2>
</div>
<h3>
Tushaar Shah</h3>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2BUjihU55Lxv8fwYskm7N5DLrD-IqUuoyv0vz0wbIaG79X9c7Ly7jOkatZRWkHuJctkM_JQQYYYZ800n7EnPZ-Q-HjsPorFyH-OJ_e49jzost92ugfEalq8HZc5yAZ-fnmQIIQArXyyT/s1600/Highlight-06.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2BUjihU55Lxv8fwYskm7N5DLrD-IqUuoyv0vz0wbIaG79X9c7Ly7jOkatZRWkHuJctkM_JQQYYYZ800n7EnPZ-Q-HjsPorFyH-OJ_e49jzost92ugfEalq8HZc5yAZ-fnmQIIQArXyyT/s320/Highlight-06.png" width="230" /></a></div>
Organising small-holders into viable organizations has long been considered critical to sustaining their livelihoods, especially in the hard times that India’s agriculture is facing today. However, India’s track record of forming robust, self-sustaining farmer cooperatives has been poor ever since the early 1990s when the movement began. For long, restrictive laws were blamed for their failure. But most of the 2,000 farmer producer companies registered under a new amendment to the Companies Act 1956 appear like old wine in a new bottle. This highlight explores why, and argues for the need to focus on the logic and process of promoting new farmer cooperatives to improve their success rate.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_06_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-87176214073245076742016-04-26T07:27:00.000+05:302016-06-26T08:01:33.354+05:302016: ITP Highlight # 05<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>How much groundwater do our urban areas pump? There's no easy answer due to large number of unregistered private wells. Couchois discusses an innovative way around, using electricity as surrogate...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Measuring the Invisible</h1>
<div>
<h2>
Exploring the water-energy nexus to estimate private, urban groundwater draft</h2>
</div>
<h3>
Angèle Couchois</h3>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_j_h15EfTZUbKbWjRriN0wAmh9q6WkXIdN0iWqv4WfIDyM-_3cAHmnt8GeEA3PFIjBk7mFOJlKwP6nqqvH-pmQ2QajiJHIxCHz9rU0YlFgGJsCNosgrrf0-kdFgSYFoxxRJAULwgXH5C/s1600/Highlight-05.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_j_h15EfTZUbKbWjRriN0wAmh9q6WkXIdN0iWqv4WfIDyM-_3cAHmnt8GeEA3PFIjBk7mFOJlKwP6nqqvH-pmQ2QajiJHIxCHz9rU0YlFgGJsCNosgrrf0-kdFgSYFoxxRJAULwgXH5C/s320/Highlight-05.png" width="230" /></a></div>
Pumping of groundwater for domestic uses is common across the country. Almost every high-rise, every new housing society and independent houses have a private tubewell that services domestic water requirements. However, none of these private tubewells are registered. As a result, governance institutions and policy makers have no idea about the extent of private groundwater extraction. However, as soon as the owners acquire an electricity connection, they create a surrogate registration which can be used to quantify the extent of private groundwater draft.<br />
<br />
The objective of this study is to develop a methodology to estimate urban groundwater withdrawal using data from electricity utilities. We argue that the water-energy nexus can inform groundwater management and governance policies in urban India by producing a rapid, context-sensitive and fairly robust estimate of private groundwater draft. Applying our methodology to selected regions in Gujarat, we find that private groundwater draft represents a significant share of total water consumption in these regions.
<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_05_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987067861426294518.post-47757508846149048172016-04-12T07:18:00.000+05:302016-06-26T08:00:07.613+05:302016: ITP Highlight # 04<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<teaser>ITP studies have reported that more than 30,000 ha is irrigated with wastewater in Gujarat. Is the situation similar outside Gujarat? Gupta and others explore two locations in Karnataka...</teaser><br />
<hr />
<h1>
Wastewater Irrigation in Karnataka</h1>
<div>
<h2>
An exploration</h2>
</div>
<h3>
Mahima Gupta, Vandana Ravindra and Alka Palrecha</h3>
<div>
<hr />
<br /></div>
<a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKtCOK-c7X4puHFnkAvA9kO6lLAbmDiuWJTrNgI9hs9v1jGkFTYOhT2-pcEJNwvhC7rqJrMuQRG7_YiqrSxX0POpD8PEKEfxCGQTkNdvp1ovkqGQBf9RidtOpl4yGA6yWwQxaDLMVyTrw/s1600/Highlight-04.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKtCOK-c7X4puHFnkAvA9kO6lLAbmDiuWJTrNgI9hs9v1jGkFTYOhT2-pcEJNwvhC7rqJrMuQRG7_YiqrSxX0POpD8PEKEfxCGQTkNdvp1ovkqGQBf9RidtOpl4yGA6yWwQxaDLMVyTrw/s320/Highlight-04.png" width="240" /></a></div>
<br />
The availability of reliable and permanent supply of wastewater from urban areas like Hubli–Dharwad and Vijayapura in Karnataka has enabled peri-urban farmers to sustain their farming livelihoods. Proximity to cities has helped farmers adopt year-round, intensive vegetable cultivation. Apart from the increase in crop yield due to high nutrients available in the wastewater, it also makes cultivation a profitable venture during the summer season. however, there are adverse health impacts of irrigating with untreated wastewater and intensive application of pesticides to fight the pests that infest these crops. Through a case study approach, this highlight attempts to analyze the current status of wastewater generation, its uses and benefits along with farmers' perceptions about its negative health impacts.<br />
<br />
<div align="right" class="PDF-link">
<b><a href="http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/iwmi-tata/PDFs/iwmi-tata_water_policy_research_highlight-issue_04_2016.pdf" target="_blank">VIEW PDF»</a></b></div>
</div>
ShilpVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849629603141880270noreply@blogger.com0