This document published by IWMI and CGIAR describes the details of the Polavaram project, which has been planned by the state of Andhra Pradesh as a multi-purpose project:
- to provide irrigation benefits to the upland areas
- to provide a water supply to the industries in Visakhapatnam city, including the Steel Plant, for the generation of hydropower
- for the development of navigation and recreation facilities.
The project envisages the construction of an earth-cum-rock filled dam that is 1,600 m long across the Godavari River at Polavaram, and about 42 km upstream of the Godavari Barrage at Dowlaiswaram.
This paper describes:
- The P-V link command area features
- Climate and topography
- Geo-hydrological conditions
- Agriculture and irrigation
- Land use
- Groundwater irrigation and conditions
- Cropping pattern
- Crop yields and net returns
- Groundwater model studies: prognosis of change
- Expected crop production benefits from P-V Link
- Sustainability issues of the P-V link command
- Groundwater irrigation
- Waterlogging and soil salinity
- Recommended agriculture strategy under the P-V Link
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