After Independence Government of India has invested enormous amount of money in the construction of multipurpose river valley projects, irrigation being a major purpose of such projects. India is rich in water resources, richer in land resources and richest in human resources i.e. there is land without water and water without land; there are severe droughts and enforcing floods. Due to rapid growth of population and consequent intensification of agricultural, economy and optimal use of land for crop production are essential. This requires systematic study of various elements involved in irrigation process. There is a need to study the performance of irrigation projects, which have been constructed at enormous cost consuming substantial time. It may be necessary to study the performance of the same projects during different time or study and compare performance of different projects at different points of time. To assess the performance of three irrigation systems in three different regions of the state Andhra Pradesh, India. Minimum sets of indicators developed and suggested by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been used to compare the performance of irrigation projects. As the crops yields, irrigation system efficiency and the returns on the investment are the major indicators, these are applied to the three irrigation systems and their performance has been studied and the results are compared.
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