ISSN:
1573-0654
Keywords:
Minor irrigation
;
institutional innovation
;
sharecropping with water
;
water market
;
productivity
;
equity
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
Abstract This paper discusses the nature and consequences of institutional innovation being pursued in recent years for the organization and management of minor irrigation in Bangladesh. The comparative analysis presented in this paper suggests that there are no significant variations of performance between the mainstream management institutions, except that tubewells under BRDB-Cooperative groups performed less well than others, nor are there any significant associations between major technical factors and irrigation performance (other than nominal pump capacity). What appears to be more important is that the economic institutions such as payment system for water is strongly associated with productivity and equity performance; sharecropping with water, which has emerged, or been popularized, with the privatization programme, has negative impact on productivity and skews benefits of irrigation towards pump owners and managers. It is concluded that so far imperfectly designed institutions, for example privatization of equipment, appear to have failed to give rise to greater technical and allocative efficiency or equity.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01102933
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