LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Functioning of Groundwater Market for Irrigation -
A Study in Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu

S. Manonmani, M.A., M.Phil., and N. Malathi, Ph.D.

Abstract

Ground water is expensive and relatively scarce in recent years. Due to short supply of surface water the farmers are to depend on groundwater market to irrigate their land for crop cultivation. In Cuddalore District, large number of buyers and sellers cultivate paddy, which is a water intensive crop. So, there is emergence of groundwater markets in Cuddalore district with two types of arrangements. Firstly, irrigation services are provided on the basis of demand, and water charges are levied per acre. Secondly, irrigation services are provided for the whole crop season, and fixed share of crop produced is given as water charge. However, for buyers of groundwater, area-pricing arrangement has given higher returns than that of crop-sharing as shown from the study in Panruti Block, Cuddalore District.

Introduction

Irrigated agriculture has been an essential factor for food security in the last decades. In the future, it will most probably be called upon to produce large fraction of food supply needed by the growing world population. At the same time agriculture will however have to cope with increasing competition for water.

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S. Manonmani, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Annamalai University
Annamalai Nagar-608 002
Tamil Nadu, India
manonmani_trichy@yahoo.co.in

N. Malathi, M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Professor and Head
Department of Economics
Annamalai University
Annamalai Nagar-608 002
Tamil Nadu, India
ecoau.hod@gmail.com
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