HIRAKUD IRRIGATION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT USING PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Abstract

Climate changes may also causes, unpredictable heavy precipitation sometimes or not, change in temperature of the any region, cropping pattern, seasonal variations and droughts will affect on over all development of the region/state/country. It may also change the water quality of Irrigation system. Even Rapid increase in population in developing and under developed several countries in the world will lead to face water problems, environmental, financial problems. It has also been observed that the most of the irrigation systems are not operating properly, i.e. as it was designed to perform. Due to increase in salinity certain extent of land becomes unproductive every year due to not getting adequate quantity of water. The performances of the irrigation systems must achieve the progress of livelihood, basic requirement of human beings and its growth. The performance, indicators would be helpful to manage irrigation system hence Hirakud irrigation of Odisha State of India is taken for study, performance of the existing irrigation system to know the extent of the benefits derived, to understand the deficiencies and the overall condition. The study also aims to develop model using fourteen minimum set of performance indicators are identified from literature which are related to agricultural production, water supply, finance, and use of fertilizers are applied, that will help the researchers /scientists to choose the performance indicators and to understand which of the performance indicators are most influencing.