scholarly journals An Impact of population on Minor Irrigation Projects Warud Tahsil, Distrist Amravati, Maharashtra

2020 ◽  
pp. 502-505
Author(s):  
Shalini M. Guldeokar ◽  
Aruna P. Patil ◽  
Mangala M. Kanate
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Irrigation Project ◽  
Irrigation Projects ◽  
Irrigation Potential ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Agriculture Development ◽  
Minor Irrigation

Irrigation is a major input for the development of agriculture in any country, the greatest development in the history of mankind was the discovery of agriculture and then irrigation. Irrigation has been practiced from very ancient times in our country; irrigation assumes paramount importance lest the vagaries of nature and uncertain rainfall lead to ruining of crops resulting in famine conditions. Irrigation serves a dual purpose in agriculture, it provides protection to crops against destructions and damage by failure of rainfall and irrigation helps to increase yield of crops even in normal condition. Hence irrigation is important, without irrigation agricultural production could not increase, but for that water is necessary for practice of agriculture. In India agriculture is carried out with the help of irrigation. Irrigation means supply of artificial means of water, it is one of most crucial inputs in the process of agriculture development, so significant efforts have been made the develop the irrigation potential through the projects. Some time minor irrigation projects play vital role in transforming the agriculture into productive agriculture as well as changing the overall social-economic structure of the area similarly agriculture gets stability also. Hence in this research paper an attempt has been made to how impact on population of minor irrigation project in Warud Tahsils.

Impact of Minor Irrigation on Agricultural Production: An Inter-Crop Analysis in Odisha

2021 ◽  
pp. 298-304
Keyword(s):  
Water Availability ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Input Use ◽  
Irrigation Potential ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Upstream Control ◽  
Minor Irrigation

The study examined the impact of minor irrigation on agricultural production and evaluated the gap between IPC and IPU in the Keonjhar district of Odisha. For this rationale, data were collected from 210 farm households through the primary survey. In support of the analysis, the Cobb Douglas model and factor analysis were used. The results revealed that the input use efficiency had a positive and significant impact on paddy production the most in all the MIPs regions compared to the other crops. However, the study indicated that insufficient water availability was the major cause behind the gap between irrigation potential created and utilised. Thus, minor irrigation played a crucial role in enhancing agricultural production in hilly regions. With the enthusiastic participation of planners, effective working of Pani Panchayats, canals, and upstream control, NGOs' involvement can achieve selfsufficiency in agricultural production by encouraging minor irrigation projects in the hilly province.

Estimation of benefits from irrigation projects: Existing practice and an alternative model

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajan K. Sampath ◽  
Kenneth C. Nobe
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Current Method ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Irrigation Project ◽  
Irrigation Projects ◽  
Irrigated Area ◽  
Irrigation Potential ◽  
Alternate Model ◽  
Selection Of

India is spending billions of rupees a year for increasing her irrigation potential. For selecting irrigation projects, a proper method of appraising costs and benefits expected from each project is very useful. The current method employed by the Irrigation Commission is dangerously simpleminded and may lead to the selection of the wrong projects. An alternate model for assessing irrigation projects is developed that takes into account realistic elasticities of demand and supply for the commodities produced in the irrigated area, and the concepts of consumers' and producers' surplus. An illustrative example shows the wide differences in estimated benefits from an irrigation project from using the Irrigation Commission's and the proposed methods. Suggestions for improving the current method are provided.

Emotions, philosophy of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Working Together ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Right

Emotions have always played a role in philosophy, even if philosophers have usually denied them centre stage. Because philosophy has so often been described as first and foremost a discipline of reason, the emotions have often been neglected or attacked as primitive, dangerous or irrational. Socrates reprimanded his pupil Crito, advising that we should not give in to our emotions, and some of the ancient Stoic philosophers urged a life of reason free from the enslavement of the emotions, a life of apatheia (apathy). In Buddhism, too, much attention has been given to the emotions, which are treated as ‘agitations’ or klesas. Buddhist ‘liberation’, like the Stoic apatheia, becomes a philosophical ideal, freedom from the emotions. Philosophers have not always downgraded the emotions, however. Aristotle defended the view that human beings are essentially rational animals, but he also stressed the importance of having the right emotions. David Hume, the eighteenth-century empiricist, insisted that ‘reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions’. In the nineteenth century, although Hegel described the history of philosophy as the development of reason he also argued that ‘nothing great is ever done without passion’. Much of the history of philosophy can be told in terms of the shifting relationship between the emotions (or ‘passions’) and reason, which are often at odds, at times seem to be at war, but ideally should be in harmony. Thus Plato painted a picture of the soul as a chariot with three horses, reason leading the appetites and ‘the spirited part’, working together. Nietzsche, at the end of the nineteenth century, suggested that ‘every passion contains its own quantum of reason’. Nietzsche’s suggestion, that emotion and reason are not really opposites but complementary or commingled, has been at the heart of much of the debate about emotions since ancient times. Are emotions intelligent, or are they simply physical reactions? Are they mere ‘feelings’, or do they play a vital role in philosophy and in our lives?

scholarly journals OPTIMUM ALLOCATION OF DIFFERENT SOURCES OF IRRIGATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
Dr. Shailja
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Irrigation Potential ◽  
Rational Allocation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Minor Irrigation ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In

Discovery of agriculture was no doubt the greatest development in the history of mankind. Irrigation, being one of the most crucial input in the process of agricultural development, has been sought to be developed. In India, although significant efforts have been made to develop the irrigation potential through major and minor irrigation, yet there has been rather inadequate awareness of the economics of irrigation. Particularly, very few comparable attempts have been made to examine the rational allocation of water between different regions, crops and over time. Most of the studies that have been made in this field, have examined the different sources of irrigation in isolation from one another. In the present study, it is intended to examine the different sources of irrigation in an integrated manner and thus provide a macro-prospective as a guide to formulation of rational policies for irrigation management. In the present study, it is proposed to study the allocation of water by regions and crops and also over time. An attempt will be made to draw out policy implications and make some specific recommendations.

scholarly journals History of Surkhan Oasis Trade Relations in the Press Periodicals

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-566
Author(s):  
M. Begalieva
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Irrigation Potential ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire

In the article analyses information in the press periodicals about geographical location, climate, irrigation potential, agricultural production, agricultural trade, activities of primary industrial enterprises of Surkhan oasis in the period of the Russian Empire

History of thyroid surgery

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Technique ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Thyroid Surgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times

The authors present an outline of the development of thyroid surgery from the ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century, when the definitive surgical technique have been developed and the physiologic and pathopfysiologic consequences of thyroid resections have been described. The key representatives, as well as the contribution of the most influential czech surgeons are mentioned.

Philosophic Pride

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

This is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. The book examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. The book delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, the book details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. The book shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

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