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Sources of Irrigation: A Theoretical Framework

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Irrigation Water Management for Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh, India

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This chapter is a conceptual framework which focuses on the development of irrigation in India during different periods of time-pre-historic, medieval and during plan periods in which construction and development of various sources of irrigation were made to make agriculture productive and sustainable. The second section of this chapter deals with the review of the literature on the previous works made on aspects of irrigation development and water management in agriculture.

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Lata, S. (2019). Sources of Irrigation: A Theoretical Framework. In: Irrigation Water Management for Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh, India. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00952-6_3

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