This paper analyzes the institutions and markets that govern groundwater allocation in the sugarcane belt of Uttar Pradesh, India, using primary plot-level data from a village which shares the typical features of this region. Electricity powers tubewell pumps, and its erratic supply translates into randomness in irrigation volumes. The paper finds that plots are water-rationed, owing to inadequate supply of power. A simple model shows that a combination of such rationing and the village-level mechanism of water sales can lead to great misallocation of water across plots, and result in large crop losses for plots that irrigate using purchased water.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/books/groundwater-irrigation-north-india-institutions-and-markets
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/banerji
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/j-v-meenakshi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/gauri-khanna
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/sandee
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tubewells
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater-irrigation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pricing
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-privatisation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/uttar-pradesh
