Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina
Many governments and international agencies have promoted irrigation management transfer (IMT) in order to reduce operations and maintenance costs and satisfy farmers' willingness to improve their irrigation service by self‐management. However, IMT has produced both satisfactory and unsatisfactory r...
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| author | Salgado, Ramiro Salvatierra, Jose Mitre, Carlos Prieto Garra, Daniel Angella, Gabriel Augusto Arriaza, Manuel Mateos, Luciano |
| author_browse | Angella, Gabriel Augusto Arriaza, Manuel Mateos, Luciano Mitre, Carlos Prieto Garra, Daniel Salgado, Ramiro Salvatierra, Jose |
| author_facet | Salgado, Ramiro Salvatierra, Jose Mitre, Carlos Prieto Garra, Daniel Angella, Gabriel Augusto Arriaza, Manuel Mateos, Luciano |
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| description | Many governments and international agencies have promoted irrigation management transfer (IMT) in order to reduce operations and maintenance costs and satisfy farmers' willingness to improve their irrigation service by self‐management. However, IMT has produced both satisfactory and unsatisfactory results. This paper presents a participatory research‐based assessment of IMT in a case study in Northwest Argentina. The study combined conventional irrigation performance assessment and a survey of farmers' perception of the water delivery service and willingness to participate in water users associations. The assessment compared two subsystems in the Río Dulce Irrigation District with different levels of management transfer. Water service in the subsystem where management had been transferred allowed flexible delivery schedules that facilitated a diversified cropping pattern, greater irrigation intensity, and resulted in more water use. Farmers in the transferred subsystem were more aware of the problems of the irrigation service than farmers in the non‐transferred subsystem. The perception of problems in the non‐transferred subsystem increased with the level of the farmer's professionalism and technical knowledge. The transmission of requests and complaints from farmers to managers was more transparent in the transferred subsystem than in the non‐transferred one. |
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| spelling | INTA87842021-03-02T13:19:50Z Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina Salgado, Ramiro Salvatierra, Jose Mitre, Carlos Prieto Garra, Daniel Angella, Gabriel Augusto Arriaza, Manuel Mateos, Luciano Riego Sistemas de Riego Evaluación Uso del Agua Irrigation Irrigation Systems Assessment Water Use Río Dulce, Santiago del Estero Many governments and international agencies have promoted irrigation management transfer (IMT) in order to reduce operations and maintenance costs and satisfy farmers' willingness to improve their irrigation service by self‐management. However, IMT has produced both satisfactory and unsatisfactory results. This paper presents a participatory research‐based assessment of IMT in a case study in Northwest Argentina. The study combined conventional irrigation performance assessment and a survey of farmers' perception of the water delivery service and willingness to participate in water users associations. The assessment compared two subsystems in the Río Dulce Irrigation District with different levels of management transfer. Water service in the subsystem where management had been transferred allowed flexible delivery schedules that facilitated a diversified cropping pattern, greater irrigation intensity, and resulted in more water use. Farmers in the transferred subsystem were more aware of the problems of the irrigation service than farmers in the non‐transferred subsystem. The perception of problems in the non‐transferred subsystem increased with the level of the farmer's professionalism and technical knowledge. The transmission of requests and complaints from farmers to managers was more transparent in the transferred subsystem than in the non‐transferred one. De nombreux gouvernements et organismes internationaux ont encouragé le transfert de la gestion de l'irrigation (IMT) afin de réduire les coûts d'exploitation et d'entretien et de satisfaire la volonté des agriculteurs d'améliorer leur service d'irrigation grâce à l'autogestion. Cependant, l'IMT a donné des résultats à la fois satisfaisants et insatisfaisants. Cet article présente une évaluation de l'IMT dans le nord-ouest de l'Argentine. Cette étude a combiné une évaluation conventionnelle des performances de l'irrigation et une enquête sur la perception qu'ont les agriculteurs du service d'approvisionnement en eau et la volonté de participer à des associations d'usage de l'eau. L'évaluation a comparé deux sous-systèmes du système d'irrigation de Río Dulce à différents niveaux de transfert de gestion. Le service de l'eau dans le sous-système où la gestion a été transférée a permis des calendriers de livraison flexibles qui ont facilité un schéma de culture diversifié, une plus grande intensité d'irrigation et a entraîné une plus grande utilisation de l'eau. Les agriculteurs du sous système transféré étaient plus conscients des problèmes du service d'irrigation que les agriculteurs du sous-système non transféré. La perception des problèmes dans le sous-système non transféré augmentait avec le niveau de professionnalisme et de connaissances techniques de l'agriculteur. La transmission des demandes et des plaintes des agriculteurs aux gestionnaires était plus transparente dans le sous-système transféré que dans le sous-système non transféré. EEA Santiago del Estero Fil: Salgado, Ramiro. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santiago del Estero; Argentina Fil: Salvatierra, Jose Ignacio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santiago del Estero; Argentina Fil: Mitre, Carlos. Asociación de Productores de la Zona IV del Sistema de Riego del Río Dulce; Argentina Fil: Prieto Garra, Daniel. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santiago del Estero; Argentina Fil: Angella, Gabriel Augusto. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santiago del Estero; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero. Facultad de Agronomía y Agroindustrias; Argentina Fil: Arriaza, Manuel. Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IFAPA); España Fil: Mateos, Luciano. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científica (CSIC). Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS); España 2021-03-02T13:11:55Z 2021-03-02T13:11:55Z 2021-01-31 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8784 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ird.2572 1531-0361 https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2572 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf Wiley Irrigation and Drainage (First published: 31 January 2021) |
| spellingShingle | Riego Sistemas de Riego Evaluación Uso del Agua Irrigation Irrigation Systems Assessment Water Use Río Dulce, Santiago del Estero Salgado, Ramiro Salvatierra, Jose Mitre, Carlos Prieto Garra, Daniel Angella, Gabriel Augusto Arriaza, Manuel Mateos, Luciano Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina |
| title | Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina |
| title_full | Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina |
| title_fullStr | Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina |
| title_short | Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina |
| title_sort | irrigation management transfer the experience of the rio dulce irrigation scheme argentina |
| topic | Riego Sistemas de Riego Evaluación Uso del Agua Irrigation Irrigation Systems Assessment Water Use Río Dulce, Santiago del Estero |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8784 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ird.2572 https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2572 |
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