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Economic and Political Weekly 2011: Review of Agriculture (June 25 - July 8, 2011)

Review of AgricultureHalf a century ago, scholars first noticed that small farms in India demonstrated a higher per acre productivity than large farms. In the 21st century these farms still produce more per acre than large farms. We should be looking at making the most of the higher agricultural productivity on small landholdings.
Where earlier seed varieties were seen as a crucial input for Indian Agriculture, it is now water that has become a critical resource because of its over-exploitation and wasteful use on crop land. In the search for better ways to harvest and use water resources, there has been tendency to hark back to the past and look at small and localized systems, but we forget that the demographic settings then were different and we do not acknowledge the fact that the institutional settings of the time made for inequitable access.
AS the government grapples with modifying the 2002 National Water Policy, an independent effort is made to formulate a draft that looks at water use in all areas in a holistic manner. These and other articles in this review look at different aspects of Indian Agriculture.

Gautam Pingle

R S Sidhu

Aruna Singh. K Palanisami

Posted on 28 Jul, 2011 02:25 PM

Issue: VOL 46 No. 26 and 27 Jun 25 - July 08, 2011

Review of Agriculture

Irrigation in Telangana: The Rise and Fall of Tanks

Gautam Pingle

Measuring irrigation subsidies in Andhra Pradesh and Southern India: An application of the GSI method for quantifying subsidies – A paper by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

This paper deals with the application of the GSI method for quantifying irrigation subsidies in Andhra Pradesh and Southern India.

Chris Charles

Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Programme

K Palanisami

Mark Giordano

Posted on 21 Mar, 2011 08:49 AM

The objectives of the study included: i) assessing the application of a common method for measuring irrigation subsidies in order to develop accurate, replicable and reliable subsidy estimates and ii) providing policy advice aimed at improving and standardizing the reporting of data on irrigation subsidies.

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