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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spelling 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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topic 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
spellingShingle 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
geographic_facet South Asia
India
description 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.
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
author_sort World Bank
title India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report
title_short India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report
title_full India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report
title_fullStr India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report
title_full_unstemmed India : Power Supply to Agriculture, Volume 1. Summary Report
title_sort india : power supply to agriculture, volume 1. summary report
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/06/2378795/india-power-supply-agriculture-vol-1-4-summary-report
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15288
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