MICRO IRRIGATION IN PARTICIPATORY MODE PAYS HUGE DIVIDENDS – APMIP EXPERIENCES, INDIA

摘要

Almost 70% of all available freshwater is used for agriculture across the world. In India more than 80 % of the renewable water resources are consumed in agriculture alone. Many of the world's most important grain lands are consuming groundwater at unsustainable rates. As we have stepped into the twenty fi rst century, the new frontier is boosting water productivity, getting more from lesser amount of water devoted to crop production. Government of Andhra Pradesh has launched the Andhra Pradesh Micro Irrigation Project (APMIP) in 2003 to promote this water saving irrigation technology in large scale for sustainable development of agriculture. The major thrust was on to put the 3 million electrifi ed pump sets in the state of Andhra Pradesh into micro irrigation. The project has so far covered more than 1.042 m ha area under micro irrigation systems in 9 years period with capital investment of Rs 31,970 million (US $ 533 million @ Rs 60 per 1 US$), benefi ting 0.66 million farmers.