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Title: | Irrigation Development in Andhra Pradesh |
Other Titles: | Irrigation Development in Andhra Pradesh |
Authors: | ICAR_CRIDA |
ICAR Data Use Licennce: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/PDF/ICAR_Data_Use_Licence.pdf |
Author's Affiliated institute: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Published/ Complete Date: | 2008 |
Project Code: | Not Available |
Keywords: | Irrigation, Development, Andhra Pradesh |
Publisher: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Citation: | Not Available |
Series/Report no.: | Not Available; |
Abstract/Description: | Andhra Pradesh has a heritage of irrigated agriculture dating back to several centuries. In the past, during the periods of Kakatiya and Vijayanagar Kingdoms, several tanks and diversion systems were constructed and wells dug which are still operating and productive. During the pre-independence period, the Godavari Delta, the Krishna Delta, the Pennar Delta, the Kurnool-Cuddapah Canal, Khanapur, Mahaboob Nehar, Pocharam and Nizamsagar irrigation systems were constructed by the then rulers. After independence, high priority was given to irrigation development. The principal projects providing irrigation are the new barrages to replace the old anicuts on the rivers Godavari, Krishna, Tungabhadra and the Penna, and the new dams/reservoirs and canal systems of Nagarjunasagar, Tungabhadra High and Low Level Canals, Sriramsagar, Somasila, Vamsadhara and Yeleru. On the Godavari, the original anicut built between 1844 and 1851 in four sections has been replaced by barrages at the same places, Dowlaiswaram, Ralli, Maddur and Vijjeswaram providing a potential of 5.02 lakh ha in East and West Godavari and Krishna districts. The Prakasam barrage at Vijayawada was the first project taken up after the Andhra State came into being in 1953; this replaced the hundred year old anicut and serves 4.96 lakh ha in Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam and West Godavari districts. The Kurnool Cuddapah Canal (KC Canal) carrying the Tungabhadra water from the anicut at Sunkesula to fields in Kurnool and Cuddapah districts since 1866 has been improved and strengthened to provide water to 1.21 lakh ha. The Nellore and Sangam anicuts also of the last century irrigate 0.79 lakh ha in Nellore district. The Tungabhadra project, (High and Low Level Canals) taken up prior to Independence carries water to 1.05 lakh ha in drought prone Anantapur, Cuddapah and Kurnool districts. Vamsadhara and Yeleru serve 1.18 lakh ha in Srikakulam and East Godavari districts. The Kadam project, built between 1949 and 1965, irrigates 0.26 lakh ha in Adilabad. The Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme, consisting of an anicut across the Tungabhadra, upstream of the Sunkesula anicut/barrage, was constructed between 1953 and 1958 to carry water to 0.35 lakh ha in the drought prone Mahaboobnagar district. The Nizamsagar project built between 1924 and 1931, and modernized fifty years later, benefits 0.97 lakh ha in Nizamabad district. |
Description: | Not Available |
ISSN: | Not Available |
Type(s) of content: | Technical Report |
Sponsors: | Not Available |
Language: | English |
Name of Journal: | Not Available |
Volume No.: | Not Available |
Page Number: | Not Available |
Name of the Division/Regional Station: | Not Available |
Source, DOI or any other URL: | Not Available |
URI: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/33040 |
Appears in Collections: | NRM-CRIDA-Publication |
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