V Gandhiraj

Decline of tank irrigation institutions in South India - A case-study of Tamil Nadu - Paper presented at the National Seminar on Water and Culture (2007)

This paper examines the importance of tank irrigation in Tamil Nadu and tries to ascertain the reasons why tank irrigation has failed today.

Posted on 30 Jan, 2011 03:34 AM

The author gives a brief history of tank irrigation in South India. The number of irrigation tanks in India were 208,000, of which 120,000 were in the three Southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. These tanks irrigated 1.8 million hectares. The author uses graphs to point out to the decline in tank irrigation.

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