Rethinking Tanks: Opportunities for Revitalising Irrigation Tanks: Empirical Findings from Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4816
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Sharma, Abhishek
Date:	2003
Agency:	International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Series:	IWMI Working Paper, no. 62
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4816
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	irrigation groundwater energy
Abstract:	"This study finds that in the Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh, tanks were a precarious source of irrigation, even at the peak of their use. Hence, with the use of electricity supply and reduction in the cost of groundwater extraction technology, farmers moved to groundwater irrigation. Along with a rise in groundwater irrigation, however, a steady decline in tank irrigated area was witnessed."

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