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Further, the hypothesis that the irrigation water institutions In the state have
failed in motivate the stakeholders. viz .. irrigation planners/ designers. project
implementing agencies and field staff at the system level and beneficiary farmers
at the micro lewl to adhere to a cropping pattern designed for a given project.
need empirical testing. It is in this context that the institutional base available at
the field level and its ineffectiveness in coordinating and motivating the
stakeholders to adopt and implement modern farm technology needs to be
analysed. Given this. it is quite likely that this problem <strong>of</strong> lack <strong>of</strong> correspondence
between the development <strong>of</strong> irrigation infrastructure and the processes <strong>of</strong>
agriculture development in the state have made the institutional arrangements in
the water sector ineffective. And this. in turn. have resulted in sub-optimal
performance. characterised by under/ non-utilisation or under/ non-development
<strong>of</strong> irrigation potential. time ami cost over runs and the det.:rioration <strong>of</strong> the water
de!i\'ery! conveyance systems. thus leading to institutional failures.
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The dimensions <strong>of</strong> institutional failure need a clear understanding in terms
<strong>of</strong> the causality and simultaneous interaction between various factors as well as
institutions affecting thc process <strong>of</strong> agriculture development in the state.
characterised by paradigm shi ft III cropping pattern. These intervening factors
and institutional linkages an: necessary to Improve the
performance <strong>of</strong>
agriculture in the state needs to be analysed properly.
The analytical srhere \\e examine is the broad spectrum <strong>of</strong> agriculture as
an aggregate <strong>of</strong> various crorring systems. interacting on a small or marginal
holding. The cropping syslt:1ll followed by the small/ marginal farmer is
intlucllced hy scveral factors and is induced mostly by thc incentive linked crop-
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