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across the states in different agro-climatic and social settings where the
present study region is located.
4. No study has examined the relation between the cropping pattern envisaged
in a project and the kind <strong>of</strong> OFD works suitable to it, taking the topographical
conditions into account. This dimension is important to formulate locationspecific
and need-based operational plans in the command areas.
5. The issues. other than water per se, like the socio-economic conditions <strong>of</strong> the
farmers. institutional, technological and hydrological constraints governIng
water distribution in a given irrigation system as well as the agro-climatic
conditions. which may directly or indirectly influence the adoption <strong>of</strong> OFD
by the farmers, have not been well appreciated by the researchers.
6. While the aspects <strong>of</strong> complementarity or the causality between public and
private investments have been discussed in the literature, there is no mention
as to how the lack <strong>of</strong> integration between massive public investment for
irrigation development and distribution policies would lead to institutional
failure as well as crowding out <strong>of</strong> farm level secondary investments.
The review <strong>of</strong> studies attempted in the foregoing chapter also identifies some <strong>of</strong>
the research issues need to be studied further, given their importance in the
contemporary development scenario. Some <strong>of</strong> the questions are as follows:
I. Why the institutional interventions by the agency, based on top-down
approach in irrigation development have not been successful enough?
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