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Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Mexico, Malaysia, Turkmenistan, Madagascar, Myanmar, Cambodia, Japan, India, Vietnam, Asia
Most of the large rice irrigation systems in Southeast Asia have been designed for rice irrigation under a supply-driven mode. Despite their huge contribution to agricultural production, there is a general consensus that these large rice irrigation systems have not lived up to expectations because of a legacy of poor institutional arrangements and system design, degraded infrastructure, poor management and stagnation in the face of rapid transformations of agriculture and pressures on their water supply.