TY  - RPRT
N2  - Small water reservoirs behind earthen dams are called tanks in India. Tanks 
supply many villages with drinking water, but their primary purpose is for 
irrigation. Tank irrigation is an old established practice in most of the 
semi-arid tropical parts of India and of some other countries. In India, the 
monsoon rains fall erratically during a few months in the year, and irrigation 
tanks serve to store and regulate the flow of water for agricultural use. In 
southern India this is primarily for the production of rice. 
AV  - public
KW  - Tank irrigation
KW  -  Semi-Arid Tropic
KW  -  India
A1  - Oppen, M V
A1  - Subba Rao, K V
TI  - Tank irrigation in Semi-Arid Tropical India
UR  - http://oar.icrisat.org/7196/
Y1  - 1980/05//
ID  - icrisat7196
M1  - technical_report
EP  - 24
PB  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 
CY  - Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India
ER  -