Abstract:
Despite high priority, massive investment and phenomenal growth in the irrigation sector since independence, the performance of irrigation systems, both in economic terms of crop yields, farm incomes and cost recovery as well as in water distribution terms of adequacy, eyuity, timeliness of water supplies has not been found encouraging the scenarios based assessment of irrigation releases under variable climate, supplies, cropping pattern, efficiencies conditions and conjuctive use criterions has been carried out by developing MIKE BASIN model for Harsi command in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh (India).
