The Irrigation Future of India

This book aims to bring forth and address the major issues confronting the irrigation sector of India and also to suggest policy pointers to sustain it. As the policy and reform canvas is large for a huge and diverse country, this book has particular focus on the most important and immediate issues and future options. The chapters not only focus on new research, in-depth analysis and technical details, but also provide a balanced review of the state of irrigation sector and comprehensive presentation of major issues, challenges and future options. With the presentation of in-depth analysis and synthesis of available knowledge, the work can act as a handbook for major irrigation water issues, actual policy changes, and potential reform that could turnaround the sector.

Given the temporal and spatial data analysis of the irrigation sector, this book will be effective and useful as a research and teaching tool to students and researchers both in India and globally. Besides its professional audience within the academic, research and policy community, the non-technical format of the book will appeal to a general audience in the media, policy, and donor circles

Prof. A. Narayanamoorthy, former full-time Member (Official), Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, is presently working as Senior Professor and Head, Department of Economics and Rural Development, Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu State, India. He has previously taught at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, Maharashtra State, India. Prof. Narayanamoorthy has widely published in the area of irrigation water and agricultural economics. Some of his works include Where Water Seeps!: Towards a New Phase in Indi’s Irrigation Reforms (Academic Foundation, 2005), The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus: Lessons from India for Development (Routledge, 2014), Indian Water Policy at the Crossroads: Resources, Technology and Reforms (Springer Nature, 2016), Micro Irrigation Systems in India: Emergence, Status and Impact (Springer, 2016), Whither Rural India? Political Economy of Agrarian Transformation in Contemporary India (Tulika/Colombia University Press, 2019), and Farm Income in India: Myths and Realities (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has received many prestigious academic awards from different academic societies and worked as a member of the policy committees constituted by the Government of India, New Delhi. Prof. Narayanamoorthy’s current ’h’ index is 26.