 | Design and Operation of Smallholder Irrigation in South Asia (WB, 1995, 134 p.) |
 |  | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
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