 | | Design and operation of smallholder irrigation in South Asia
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 |  | | Foreword |
| | | Abstract |
| | | Chapter 1 - Introduction |
|  | | Chapter 2 - Profile of the smallholder |
| | | Fractionation and consolidation of the smallholding |
| | | Smallholder attitude toward farmer-owned and government systems |
| | | Cultivator willingness to undertake more intensive cultivation |
| | | Smallholder attitude toward credit |
| | | Theft and vandalism of control structures |
| | | Chapter 3 - Land shaping and water distribution at the field level |
| | | Land shaping by the cultivator vs. institutionally |
| | | Land shaping and water management in smallholder irrigation |
| | | Land shaping as a project component |
| | | Chapter 4 - Water supply and demand |
| | | Degree of storage regulation |
| | | Intensity of irrigation |
| | | Crop water requirements and crop water response |
| | | Effective rainfall |
| | | The particular case of water requirements for paddy |
| | | Chapter 5 - Cropping patterns in irrigation design |
| | | The degree of control of selection of crops |
| | | Cropping pattern design and project formulation |
| | | Chapter 6 - Irrigability |
| | | Soil surveys and land classification |
| | | Soil constituents |
| | | Soils problems on irrigation |
| | | Saline and alkaline soils |
| | | Expansive days |
| | | Gypsiferous soils |
| | | Acid sulphate soils (cat clays) |
| | | Podzols |
| | | Lateritic soils |
| | | Dune sands |
| | | Chapter 7 - Canal systems for smallholder irrigation |
| | | Introduction and definitions |
| | | Designing for variable supply |
| | | Varying demand within the service area |
| | | Allocation of water and establishing water charges |
| | | Capacity of primary and secondary canals and size of irrigation area |
| | | Distribution at the tertiary level |
| | | Background |
| | | Tertiary system design for non-paddy crops |
| | | Tertiary system design for areas primarily under paddy |
| | | Tertiary system design for mixed cropping |
| | | Layout of tertiary channels |
| | | Chapter 8 - Hydraulics of canal regulation and types of control structures |
| | | Background |
| | | Downstream control with limited demand |
| | | Upstream control with rotational delivery |
| | | Hydraulic controls on secondary and tertiary canals |
| | | Downstream control |
| | | Upstream control |
| | | Hydraulic controls on primary canals |
| | | Production of small hydraulic structures |
| | | Chapter 9 - Operation and maintenance |
| | | Introduction |
| | | Inadequate budget for O and M |
| | | Desilting of canals |
| | | Weed control in canals |
| | | Operation of partially completed systems |
| | | Night irrigation |
| | | Monitoring of project performance |
| | | Application of computers to irrigation system operation |
| | | Social and political pressures in system operation |
| | | Chapter 10 - Durability of canal linings |
| | | Reasons for lining |
| | | Causes of deterioration canal linings |
| | | Construction materials for primary and secondary canal linings |
| | | Construction materials and production methods of tertiary canal linings |
| | | Chapter 11 - Construction and maintenance problems of drainage works |
| | | Drainage and the cultivator |
| | | Formal and informal tertiary drainage systems |
| | | Subsurface field drainage |
| | | Primary and secondary drainage |
| | | Chapter 12 - Cultivator organizations |
| | | Cultivator organizations in irrigation system operation |
| | | Traditional organization in village-level irrigation schemes |
| | | Projection from the village-level organization to cultivator organizations in public systems |
| | | Experience and problems with water user groups in public irrigation systems |
| | | Chapter 13 - Village schemes and small tank projects |
| | | Background |
| | | Farmer-constructed diversion systems |
| | | Village schemes with storage |
| | | Chapter 14 - Groundwater development |
| | | Introduction |
| | | Small, individually-owned, suction-mode wells |
| | | Individually owned and group owned force-mode wells |
| | | Large capacity public tubewells |
| | | Technical problems in design and construction of medium and large tubewells |
| | | Water distribution from medium tubewells |
| | | Functions of the tubewell operator |
| | | Power supply problems |
| | | Comparison of medium and large wells |
| | | Chapter 15 - Conjunctive use of surface and groundwater |
| | | Definitions |
| | | Direct conjunctive use |
| | | Indirect conjunctive use |
| | | Chapter 16 - Pumped lift irrigation distribution |
| | | Background |
| | | The application of individually owned small pumping units |
| | | Centralized pumped-lift systems |
| | | Chapter 17 - Technical and operational improvements in rehabilitation of irrigation projects |
| | | Introduction |
| | | The dam and reservoir |
| | | The canal system |
| | | Drainage |
| | | Introduction of high technology irrigation methods |
| | | Chapter 18 - Ecological and riparian factors in irrigation development |
| | | Introduction |
| | | Ecological issues in groundwater development |
| | | Surface water development |
| | | Riparian issues |
| | | References |
| | | Distributors of world bank publications |
