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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TUBEWELLS IN WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH

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Title PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TUBEWELLS IN WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH
 
Creator CHAUDHARI ABHIJIT ASHOK
 
Contributor R. K. Sharma
 
Subject irrigation, area, wells, crops, costs, diseases, land resources, water, manpower, seasons
 
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ABSTRACT
Performance evaluation was done for public and private tubewells at Asoda
village of Hapur block in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The study was conducted
in view of unsteady, unpredictable field conditions during the Rabi season over a thr
ee
year period from 2003 to 2005. The selection of public tubewells was at random. The
private tubewells were selected in vincity of public tubewells. The data for public
tubewells was obtained from Hapur block office at Harsau whereas for private tubewell
s
it was collected by interaction with the farmers and on-field measurements of electricity
consumed to determine the running hours, discharge was measured and area irrigated
collected from farmers land records. The cost of irrigation under public tubewells was
also collected from the official records. The cost of constructing a tubewell was
collected from the local public works department office of state government.
The average areas irrigated per unit discharge, per unit time and per unit volume
by public and private tubewells were the parameters compared for performance
evaluation. The working of both categories of tubewells did not show any uniformity in
respect of their discharge, running hours and area covered over the years of comparison.
The factors like rainfall, electricity, mechanical breakdown, silting of tubewells and
financial constraints played an important role in varying these parameters over the study
period. The analysis of the data indicated an overall better performance of public
tubewells over that of private tubewells. Higher discharge and running hours were found
to be the main reasons for better performance of public tubewells. Public tubewells
covered 80 % more area per unit discharge, 400 % more per unit time as well as 15 %
more p
er unit volume compared to private tubewells. As the advance front in surface
irrigation with higher discharge covers the same area faster than th
at with lower stream
size, irrigation by public tubewells allowed improved performance and avoided deep
percolation losses. Also the delivery system of the public tubewells was found to be
deficient. The economics of operating public tubewells was also found to be poor. The
present cost of irrigation water was too low to meet the cost of operating public
tubewells. The electricity problems related to public tubewells were analyzed.
Inadequate and untimely electricity supply made irrigation by public tube wells
 
Date 2017-01-07T13:00:12Z
2017-01-07T13:00:12Z
2008
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/94986
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher water techonology