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Central India Initiative:
Improved Water Control as the Strategy for Vitalizing Tribal
Agricultural Economy
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Time, Date
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1430 -
1800 hours, 27th January 2003 |
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Panel
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Sanjiv
Phansalkar, Harnath Jagawat, Neelima Khetan |
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Coordinators
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Shilp
Verma and Vaibhav Bhamoriya |
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Contact
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s.verma@cgiar.org |
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- Significant opportunities to develop small-scale
irrigation from small perennial streams exist all over the
hilly and undulating region stretching across about 18o
to 25o latitude, especially in the wetter eastern
parts covering Jharkhand, non-coastal Orissa, eastern Madhya
Pradesh and eastern Maharashtra. The probability of perennial
flow in streams is higher here due to higher rainfall and
reasonable forest cover. This contiguous region across several
States is one of the largest concentrations of poor people
in India now and is also home to some 50 odd million tribal
people, 70% of the tribal population in the country. Poor
people too, especially tribal people own some land here. More
than 90% of the tribal population of the region is rural,
directly or indirectly dependent upon agriculture. In spite
of the fact that most of them hold land, agricultural practices
are quite primitive and production is low. Subsistence farming
coupled with increase in population has taken them to the
lowest level of destitution. Therefore, tiny irrigation projects
would benefit households unable to produce enough food to
last the year and gradually to transform their subsistence
farming. Has India's irrigation development strategy exploited
this opportunity to any significant extent? If not, what might
be the appropriate design and strategy for a programmatic
intervention to develop this opportunity?
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Author(s) / Speaker(s)
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PPT
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Topic
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| Shilp Verma |
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Introduction
to the Theme |
| Arpan Sharma |
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Irrigation
Interventions in Tribal Communities: A Review of Literature |
| Tushaar Shah
and OP Singh |
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Improved
Water Control as a Strategy for Agricultural Intensification in
India's Tribal Heartland |
| Rakesh Pandey
and Harmeet Saini |
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A
Study of Land and Water Resources Development Program promoted
by N M Sadguru Water and Development Foundation in the Tribal
Regions of Gujarat and Rajasthan |
| Harnath Jagawat
and Kanhaiya Choudhary |
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A
Study of Government Installed Lift Irrigation Schemes in Jhabua,
MP |
| Shilp Verma
and Manas Satpathy |
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Irrigation
Development for Tribal Farmers in Surat |
| Vaibhav Bhamoriya
and Saroj Mahapatra |
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Where
is the Demand? PRADAN's Irrigated Agriculture Program |
| Sachin Mardikar |
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Community
Lift Irrigation Schemes in Wardha and Yavatmal Districts of Maharashtra |
| Aditi Mukherji,
Shilp Verma and Prabhat Rath |
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Demonstrating
Success: Participatory Irrigation Management with Tribals in AKRSP
(I) Suppported Canal Irrigation Systems in South Gujarat |
| Sunil Kr. Singh
and Pravin Kr. Singh |
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Issues
in Developing Irrigated Agriculture based Livelihoods among the
Tribal Poor in Central India |
| S Phansalkar,
S Verma and V Bhamoriya |
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What Works
and What Does Not in Irrigation Based Livelihood Intervention
in Tribal Regions: A Synthesis of Six Case Studies |
| Shilp Verma |
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Agenda for
Discussion |
| All
Participants |
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Panel
Discussion on Ways Ahead for CInI |
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