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Climate change will affect water supplies in south Asia, where high-intensity floods and droughts are expected in the future. Increasing water storage is a key adaptation strategy, and the experience of irrigation tanks illustrates both the potential and challenges of this adaptation response. Al...


Kuppannan, PalanisamiMeinzen-Dick, Ruth S.Giordano, Mark[Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India]Climate change and water supplies: options for sustaining tank irrigation potential in India

The overall performance of watershed development programmes has been examined in the state of Tamil Nadu. The impacts of major watershed development programmes have been outlined in terms of biophysical impacts, environmental impacts, socio-economic impacts and overall economic impacts. It is poi...


Kuppannan, PalanisamiKumar, D.S.[Impacts of watershed development programmes: experiences and evidences from Tamil Nadu]Impacts of watershed development programmes: experiences and evidences from Tamil Nadu

Using non-parametric methods, we estimate the foregone rents due to credit, allocative, and technical inefficiencies of subsistence farmers in Southern India. The lost rents are estimated directly from the Nerlovian efficiency index, and the results suggest the largest foregone rents derive from ...


Smith, R.Gemma, M.Kuppannan, Palanisami[Profit based efficiency measures, with an application to rice production in Southern India]Profit based efficiency measures, with an application to rice production in Southern India
Nanthakumaran, A.Kuppannan, Palanisami[Paddy production efficiency of the farmers under tank irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu]Paddy production efficiency of the farmers under tank irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu

Irrigation subsidies have become a highly contentious issue over the years and alternative approaches and conventions have been evolved in measuring the magnitude of these subsidies. Given the fact that the capital cost is a sunk cost, this paper has used the O&M cost of the project and the gross...


Kuppannan, PalanisamiMalik, Ravinder Paul SinghMohan, Kadiri[Are we over-estimating irrigation subsidies in multipurpose water resources projects in India?? methodological issues and evidence]Are we over-estimating irrigation subsidies in multipurpose water resources projects in India?? methodological issues and evidence

Even though there has been increasing development of water management technologies over the years, the adoption rate by the farmers is comparatively small ranging from only 15-20%. Hence it is timely to look at the return to water management research investment to fine tune investment in future r...


Kuppannan, PalanisamiKakumanu, Krishna ReddyKumar, D.S.Challamuthu, S.Chandrasekaran, B.Ranganathan, C.R.Giordano, Mark[Do investments in water management research pay?: an analysis of water management research in India]Do investments in water management research pay?: an analysis of water management research in India
Kakumanu, K. R.Kuppannan, PalanisamiNagothu, U. S.Kotapati, G. R.Maram, S.Gattineni, S. R.[Making weather index insurance effective for agriculture and livestock forage: lessons from Andhra Pradesh, India]Making weather index insurance effective for agriculture and livestock forage: lessons from Andhra Pradesh, India
Kuppannan, PalanisamiSugden, Fraser[Improving the rural livelihoods through the development and management of smallscale water resources of East India and Nepal]Improving the rural livelihoods through the development and management of smallscale water resources of East India and Nepal

On-farm water storage (OFWS) is a farmers' response to mitigating inadequate and variable water supply in canal commands in the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana project in Rajasthan, India. This paper assesses the impact of OFWS on on-farm performance, based on a sample of farms with and without st...


Amarasinghe, Upali A.Kuppannan, PalanisamiSingh, O.P.[Improving canal irrigation performance with on-farm water storage: evidence from the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana Project in India]Improving canal irrigation performance with on-farm water storage: evidence from the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana Project in India

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