Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka
This report is one of several IIMI publications addressing the issue of irrigation management to promote diversified crops during the dry season. As Sri Lanka approaches self-sufficiency in rice production, a target already achieved by some other countries in the region, there is little logic in gro...
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1990
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| author | Ekanayake, R. Groenfeldt, D. |
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| description | This report is one of several IIMI publications addressing the issue of irrigation management to promote diversified crops during the dry season. As Sri Lanka approaches self-sufficiency in rice production, a target already achieved by some other countries in the region, there is little logic in growing rice using land and water resources which could support higher- value non-rice crops, using less water. Thus, one of the incentives in improving irrigation management is to find ways of stretching water further during the dry season in water-deficit systems, when rice is relatively more expensive to grow than during the wet season, and when other crops which can be grown only during the dry season (when there is less danger of water-logging) offer the farmer and the country a comparative advantage. |
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| spelling | CGSpace391682025-12-08T07:52:59Z Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka Ekanayake, R. Groenfeldt, D. irrigation management organizations tank irrigation farmer-agency interactions water allocation rotation diversification crops This report is one of several IIMI publications addressing the issue of irrigation management to promote diversified crops during the dry season. As Sri Lanka approaches self-sufficiency in rice production, a target already achieved by some other countries in the region, there is little logic in growing rice using land and water resources which could support higher- value non-rice crops, using less water. Thus, one of the incentives in improving irrigation management is to find ways of stretching water further during the dry season in water-deficit systems, when rice is relatively more expensive to grow than during the wet season, and when other crops which can be grown only during the dry season (when there is less danger of water-logging) offer the farmer and the country a comparative advantage. 1990 2014-06-13T13:51:20Z 2014-06-13T13:51:20Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39168 en Open Access application/pdf International Irrigation Management Institute International Water Management Institute Ekanayake, R.; Groenfeldt, D. 1990. Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI). vi, 37p. (IIMI Working Paper 017) |
| spellingShingle | irrigation management organizations tank irrigation farmer-agency interactions water allocation rotation diversification crops Ekanayake, R. Groenfeldt, D. Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka |
| title | Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka |
| title_full | Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka |
| title_fullStr | Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka |
| title_full_unstemmed | Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka |
| title_short | Organizational aspects of improved irrigation management: an experiment in Dewahuwa Tank, Sri Lanka |
| title_sort | organizational aspects of improved irrigation management an experiment in dewahuwa tank sri lanka |
| topic | irrigation management organizations tank irrigation farmer-agency interactions water allocation rotation diversification crops |
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