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Policy Tasks for Establishment of Participatory Irrigation Management
Author Cho, Wonjoo
Views 43980 Publication Date 2021.03.15
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Background and Purpose
○ With growing concern about water scarcity, agricultural water policy is required to change from a supply enhancement to supply a sufficient amount of agricultural water to agricultural lands to demand management to use with the given amount of water efficiently. In particular, in integrated water resource management, demand for environmental and other water increases, so the importance of demand management for agricultural water is expanding.

○ This study aims to suggest directions and tasks for establishing a participatory agricultural water management system in which farmers participate in the demand management of agricultural water for efficient agricultural water use in an integrated water resource management. Its detailed research objectives include the following: (1) establishing a new direction for participatory agricultural water management by reviewing the current status of agricultural water use and comparing the agricultural water management method, and (2) examining activities for agricultural water demand management. (3) suggesting directions and tasks for establishing participatory agricultural water management.


Key Findings
○ At this point, the new participatory agricultural water management should consist of activities with less additional labor input, and not for maintenance of irrigation facilities, but activities can create positive externality. It is also necessary to escape from the dichotomous thinking that the Rural Community Corporation is responsible for the structural loss of agricultural water and the farmer is responsible for the unstructured loss of agricultural water. The agricultural water supply manager, the Rural Community Corporation (or local government), and the agricultural water user, the farmer, must cooperate to achieve agricultural water demand management. Lastly, participatory agricultural water management should be implemented to allow farmers and Rural Community Corporation to expand opportunities for sharing incentives, rather than reducing the burden of maintenance costs. From this point of view, this study analyzes two activities for agricultural water demand management and suggest policy alternatives.

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