<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Tank irrigation in Semi-Arid Tropical India</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">M V</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Oppen</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K V</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Subba Rao</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Small water reservoirs behind earthen dams are called tanks in India. Tanks &#13;
supply many villages with drinking water, but their primary purpose is for &#13;
irrigation. Tank irrigation is an old established practice in most of the &#13;
semi-arid tropical parts of India and of some other countries. In India, the &#13;
monsoon rains fall erratically during a few months in the year, and irrigation &#13;
tanks serve to store and regulate the flow of water for agricultural use. In &#13;
southern India this is primarily for the production of rice. </mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Watershed Management</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">1980-05</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics </mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Monograph</mods:genre></mods:mods>