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Tank irrigation in Semi-Arid Tropical India

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Title Tank irrigation in Semi-Arid Tropical India
 
Creator Oppen, M V
Subba Rao, K V
 
Subject Watershed management
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Small water reservoirs behind earthen dams are called tanks in India. Tanks
supply many villages with drinking water, but their primary purpose is for
irrigation. Tank irrigation is an old established practice in most of the
semi-arid tropical parts of India and of some other countries. In India, the
monsoon rains fall erratically during a few months in the year, and irrigation
tanks serve to store and regulate the flow of water for agricultural use. In
southern India this is primarily for the production of rice.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 1980-05
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7196/1/EconomicsProgram-Progress%20Report.9-1980.pdf
Oppen, M V and Subba Rao, K V (1980) Tank irrigation in Semi-Arid Tropical India. Technical Report. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.