Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina
Many governments and international agencies have promoted irrigation management transfer (IMT) in order to reduce operations and maintenance costs and satisfy farmers' willingness to improve their irrigation service by self-management. However, IMT has produced both satisfactory and unsatisfactory results. This paper presents a participatory research-based assessment of IMT in a case study in Northwest Argentina. The study combined conventional irrigation performance assessment and a survey of farmers' perception of the water delivery service and willingness to participate in water users associations. The assessment compared two subsystems in the Río Dulce Irrigation District with different levels of management transfer. Water service in the subsystem where management had been transferred allowed flexible delivery schedules that facilitated a diversified cropping pattern, greater irrigation intensity, and resulted in more water use. Farmers in the transferred subsystem were more aware of the problems of the irrigation service than farmers in the non-transferred subsystem. The perception of problems in the non-transferred subsystem increased with the level of the farmer's professionalism and technical knowledge. The transmission of requests and complaints from farmers to managers was more transparent in the transferred subsystem than in the non-transferred one.
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dig-ias-es-10261-2679632022-04-28T01:47:19Z Irrigation management transfer: The experience of the Río Dulce Irrigation Scheme, Argentina Salgado, Ramiro Salvatierra, José Ignacio Mitre, Carlos Prieto Garra, Daniel Angella, Gabriel Augusto Arriaza, Manuel Mateos, Luciano European Commission Asociación APAZ IV Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (España) Many governments and international agencies have promoted irrigation management transfer (IMT) in order to reduce operations and maintenance costs and satisfy farmers' willingness to improve their irrigation service by self-management. However, IMT has produced both satisfactory and unsatisfactory results. This paper presents a participatory research-based assessment of IMT in a case study in Northwest Argentina. The study combined conventional irrigation performance assessment and a survey of farmers' perception of the water delivery service and willingness to participate in water users associations. The assessment compared two subsystems in the Río Dulce Irrigation District with different levels of management transfer. Water service in the subsystem where management had been transferred allowed flexible delivery schedules that facilitated a diversified cropping pattern, greater irrigation intensity, and resulted in more water use. Farmers in the transferred subsystem were more aware of the problems of the irrigation service than farmers in the non-transferred subsystem. The perception of problems in the non-transferred subsystem increased with the level of the farmer's professionalism and technical knowledge. The transmission of requests and complaints from farmers to managers was more transparent in the transferred subsystem than in the non-transferred one. The first author acknowledges the grant funded by INTA to develop his PhD at the Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (CSIC) in Spain, APAZ-IV, and UER. 2022-04-27T10:10:02Z 2022-04-27T10:10:02Z 2021-10 2022-04-27T10:10:03Z artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 doi: 10.1002/ird.2572 issn: 1531-0353 e-issn: 1531-0361 Irrigation and Drainage 70(4): 845-860 (2021) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/267963 10.1002/ird.2572 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ird.2572 Sí none John Wiley & Sons |
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Many governments and international agencies have promoted irrigation management transfer (IMT) in order to reduce operations and maintenance costs and satisfy farmers' willingness to improve their irrigation service by self-management. However, IMT has produced both satisfactory and unsatisfactory results. This paper presents a participatory research-based assessment of IMT in a case study in Northwest Argentina. The study combined conventional irrigation performance assessment and a survey of farmers' perception of the water delivery service and willingness to participate in water users associations. The assessment compared two subsystems in the Río Dulce Irrigation District with different levels of management transfer. Water service in the subsystem where management had been transferred allowed flexible delivery schedules that facilitated a diversified cropping pattern, greater irrigation intensity, and resulted in more water use. Farmers in the transferred subsystem were more aware of the problems of the irrigation service than farmers in the non-transferred subsystem. The perception of problems in the non-transferred subsystem increased with the level of the farmer's professionalism and technical knowledge. The transmission of requests and complaints from farmers to managers was more transparent in the transferred subsystem than in the non-transferred one. |
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