The supply of power to Indian agriculture, vital for successful irrigation, is in particularly grave condition. Supply is neither reliable, available nor of the steady quality needed to avoid damaging the irrigation pumps it runs and severely disrupting irrigation and farming operations. The state utilities, the only source of electricity for the country's farmers are in equally bad shape. They lack the skilled personnel and management culture, for instance, to block persistent theft of power and recover the very significant revenue losses that such pilferage imposes on them. In general, they lack the financial resources to modernize their operations so that rural consumers can count on getting electricity when they need it, for as long as they need it and at voltage levels appropriate to equipment in the field.
Improving the quality of electricity services to agriculture, and therefore, improving farmers' income and agriculture growth, requires the in-depth power sector reforms that few Indian states have embarked upon. Farmers, notably the small and marginal farmers, will substantially benefit from these reforms.Volume 1 Summary Report (405kb pdf) Volume 2 Case Study Haryana (455kb pdf) Annex 1 The Agricultural Sector in haryana - An Overview (68kb pdf) Annex 2  Characteristics of the Sample Farmers (98kb pdf) Annex 3  Metering Study Results (18kb pdf) Annex 4 Methodology for Tariff Cost Imputation (6kb pdf) Annex 5 Statistical tables (387kb pdf) Annex 6. Determinants of Choice of Irrigation Technology and Farm Income (146kb pdf) Annex 7 Economic benefits of Metering (45kb pdf) Annex 8 Haryana Comments on the Report (51kb pdf) Volume 3  Case Study Andhra Pradesh (248kb pdf) Annex 1 Statistical Tables (178kb pdf) Annex 2 Drought Conditions During Survey Year (24kb pdf) Volume 4 Methodological Framework and Sampling Procedures report (208kb pdf) A note from the authors: These reports are based on several studies undertaken in collaboration with the Governments of Haryana and Andhra Pradesh and the power utilities of these states. Their active participation in all phases of conception and implementation of these studies is gratefully acknowledged. We would like to express our gratitude to the Government of Japan for contributing to the funding the study, and to USAID and DFID (UK) for their active participation in the review of the study. (Study team members)
For additional information see: http://ercap.org/ Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission
http://herc.nic.in/ Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission
http://powermin.nic.in/ Union Ministry of Power
http://www.cercind.org/ Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
http://www.nic.in/cwc/ Central Water Commission
http://wrmin.nic.in/ Union Ministry of Water Resources
http://www.andhrapradesh.com/htmlindex.html Government of Andhra Pradesh
http://www.haryana.nic.in/ Government of Haryana Contact for this report:
Mr. Lucio Monari, lmonari@worldbank.org |
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