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Farmers struggle for irrigation water in India's semi-arid region [1]

During January 2008, the author visited Alawa village (population nearly 1000) in Jhalawar District, Rajasthan to study scarcity of irrigation water. Armed with diesel engines, farmers were seen aggressively pumping water from two check dams located in the Ahu River

Publication Date: 
09/06/2008
Govindasamy Agoramoorthy [2]
Current Science [3]
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Tags:
Dryland Farming [4], Check Dam [5], Water Demand [6], Irrigation [7], Farmers [8], Sadguru Foundation [9], India [10], Rajasthan [11], Jhalawar (D) [12]
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