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Calculating the cost of irrigation induced soil salinization in the tungabhadra project

2004· article· en· 0 citations· W6926095288 on OpenAlex· 10.22004/ag.econ.348559

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stratum: fund_new · design weight: 1678.90 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Economic costing of irrigation induced soil salinization; a domain question in agricultural economics.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

The study estimates economic costs of soil salinization in an irrigation project.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Economic analysis of irrigation-induced soil salinization in India; domain agricultural economics, not metaresearch.

Abstract

Irrigation projects in developing countries have a history of poor performance. Inefficiencies result as water applications deviate from plans and induce greater than projected rates of soil degradation through water logging and salt accumulation. Over time, the collective impact of these forces will converge to an equilibrium with a level of output that may be far below the system’s potential. The Tungabhadra Project in south west India is experiencing all of these problems. Integrating geographic, hydrologic, biologic and economic features, the lost production value is estimated for a range of equilibria to which this system may converge. For the lower left bank main canal of the Tungabhadra project, the total economic cost of soil degradation are approximately 14.5% of the system’s productive potential while sub-optimal distribution losses may approach 37.1%.

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Venue
AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
Topic
Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
Field
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Canadian institutions
Funders
Queen's UniversityShastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Keywords
IrrigationSoil salinityProduction (economics)Soil retrogression and degradationSoil waterDistribution (mathematics)SalinityHydrology (agriculture)Range (aeronautics)Profitability index
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