India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report
After almost a decade of high-level effort to bring the charges (tariffs) that farmers pay for electricity more nearly into line with the costs of supply, India has barely made a dent in the longstanding and increasingly uneconomical practice of su...
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okr-10986-152882021-04-23T14:03:15Z India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report World Bank POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS CASE STUDIES AGRICULTURAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION ELECTRIC POWER POWER DISTRIBUTION AVAILABILITY RELIABILITY PUMPING STATIONS FARMER MANAGEMENT OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY FARM INCOME WILLINGNESS TO PAY POWER SECTOR REFORM POWER GENERATING SYSTEMS ELECTRICITY PRICING ENERGY LOSS AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENTS AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES OPPORTUNITY COSTS SERVICE QUALITY AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CONSUMERS CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION RATES COTTON CROP YIELDS CROPPING CROPS DISCOUNTED VALUE ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RATE OF RETURN ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY DEMAND ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION EMPLOYMENT END USE EQUILIBRIUM EQUIPMENT EXPENDITURES EXTENSION EXTENSION SERVICES FARMERS FARMING FINANCIAL RESOURCES FIXED COSTS FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD SECURITY FRUITS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT INCENTIVE SYSTEMS INCOME INCOMES INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRRIGATION LOGGING MARKETING MOTORS POWER POWER CONSUMPTION POWER OUTAGES POWER SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCERS PRODUCTIVITY PUMPING PUMPS RICE RICE CULTIVATION RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL EMPLOYMENT RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE SAVINGS SCARCITY VALUE USAID VARIABLE INPUTS VEGETABLES VOLTAGE WHEAT WILLINGNESS TO PAY After almost a decade of high-level effort to bring the charges (tariffs) that farmers pay for electricity more nearly into line with the costs of supply, India has barely made a dent in the longstanding and increasingly uneconomical practice of subsidizing power to agricultural consumers for irrigation. Progress has been slowed by the understandable but misplaced concern that higher tariffs would harm farmers--and that the injured parties would take political revenge on the reformers. This study seeks to dispel that anxiety. It is the result of a joint effort by the Bank and the states of Haryana and Adhra Pradesh , both of which have begun raising the price of electriicity to agriculture. Its central contribution to policy discussion is the detail in which it documents the costs--ususally neither acknowledged nor clearly defined--to farmers in those states of subsidies that actually harm agricultural operations more than they help as well as the benefits that the farmers would get from improved quality of electricity services. The costs--in power outages, damaged pumping equipment, irrigation foregone because of power losses, distorted investment patterns, among others--exact a heavy toll from ordinary farmers. In the form of deficits, the subsidies also sap state budgets of funds that could otherwise be invested in rural infrastructure, extension services, and advanced agricultural technology. As unrecovered costs, they starve suppliers of funds for maintenance and improved service. On the other side of the coin lie the benefits that reliable flows of power and good quality of other electricity services could deliver to rural India. 2013-08-22T14:39:23Z 2013-08-22T14:39:23Z 2001-06-15 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/06/2378795/india-power-supply-agriculture-vol-1-4-summary-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15288 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC South Asia India |
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POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS CASE STUDIES AGRICULTURAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION ELECTRIC POWER POWER DISTRIBUTION AVAILABILITY RELIABILITY PUMPING STATIONS FARMER MANAGEMENT OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY FARM INCOME WILLINGNESS TO PAY POWER SECTOR REFORM POWER GENERATING SYSTEMS ELECTRICITY PRICING ENERGY LOSS AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENTS AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES OPPORTUNITY COSTS SERVICE QUALITY AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CONSUMERS CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION RATES COTTON CROP YIELDS CROPPING CROPS DISCOUNTED VALUE ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RATE OF RETURN ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY DEMAND ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION EMPLOYMENT END USE EQUILIBRIUM EQUIPMENT EXPENDITURES EXTENSION EXTENSION SERVICES FARMERS FARMING FINANCIAL RESOURCES FIXED COSTS FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD SECURITY FRUITS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT INCENTIVE SYSTEMS INCOME INCOMES INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRRIGATION LOGGING MARKETING MOTORS POWER POWER CONSUMPTION POWER OUTAGES POWER SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCERS PRODUCTIVITY PUMPING PUMPS RICE RICE CULTIVATION RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL EMPLOYMENT RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE SAVINGS SCARCITY VALUE USAID VARIABLE INPUTS VEGETABLES VOLTAGE WHEAT WILLINGNESS TO PAY |
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POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS CASE STUDIES AGRICULTURAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION ELECTRIC POWER POWER DISTRIBUTION AVAILABILITY RELIABILITY PUMPING STATIONS FARMER MANAGEMENT OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY FARM INCOME WILLINGNESS TO PAY POWER SECTOR REFORM POWER GENERATING SYSTEMS ELECTRICITY PRICING ENERGY LOSS AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENTS AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES OPPORTUNITY COSTS SERVICE QUALITY AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CONSUMERS CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION RATES COTTON CROP YIELDS CROPPING CROPS DISCOUNTED VALUE ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC RATE OF RETURN ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY DEMAND ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION EMPLOYMENT END USE EQUILIBRIUM EQUIPMENT EXPENDITURES EXTENSION EXTENSION SERVICES FARMERS FARMING FINANCIAL RESOURCES FIXED COSTS FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD SECURITY FRUITS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT INCENTIVE SYSTEMS INCOME INCOMES INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRRIGATION LOGGING MARKETING MOTORS POWER POWER CONSUMPTION POWER OUTAGES POWER SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCERS PRODUCTIVITY PUMPING PUMPS RICE RICE CULTIVATION RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL EMPLOYMENT RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE SAVINGS SCARCITY VALUE USAID VARIABLE INPUTS VEGETABLES VOLTAGE WHEAT WILLINGNESS TO PAY World Bank India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report |
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After almost a decade of high-level
effort to bring the charges (tariffs) that farmers pay for
electricity more nearly into line with the costs of supply,
India has barely made a dent in the longstanding and
increasingly uneconomical practice of subsidizing power to
agricultural consumers for irrigation. Progress has been
slowed by the understandable but misplaced concern that
higher tariffs would harm farmers--and that the injured
parties would take political revenge on the reformers. This
study seeks to dispel that anxiety. It is the result of a
joint effort by the Bank and the states of Haryana and Adhra
Pradesh , both of which have begun raising the price of
electriicity to agriculture. Its central contribution to
policy discussion is the detail in which it documents the
costs--ususally neither acknowledged nor clearly defined--to
farmers in those states of subsidies that actually harm
agricultural operations more than they help as well as the
benefits that the farmers would get from improved quality of
electricity services. The costs--in power outages, damaged
pumping equipment, irrigation foregone because of power
losses, distorted investment patterns, among others--exact a
heavy toll from ordinary farmers. In the form of deficits,
the subsidies also sap state budgets of funds that could
otherwise be invested in rural infrastructure, extension
services, and advanced agricultural technology. As
unrecovered costs, they starve suppliers of funds for
maintenance and improved service. On the other side of the
coin lie the benefits that reliable flows of power and good
quality of other electricity services could deliver to rural India. |
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India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report |
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India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report |
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India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report |
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India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report |
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India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report |
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india : power supply to agriculture, volume 1. summary report |
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Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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