The Research On Running Mechanism And Performance Of Participatory On Irrigation Management In Hetao Irrigation Districts

Irrigation plays a key role in Hetao Irrigation Districts's agricultural development; however, traditional irrigation management system could not meet the requirement of irrigation development. Participatory on Irrigation Management (PIM), is a kind of alternative irrigation pattern introduced from foreign countries in the 1999.PIM can connect with market system to realize the benign circulation of water user self-management and economic independence of the irrigation districts. In general water user associations (WUAs) is the most important form of PIMPer such situation, this paper was proposed to make in-depth analyses on WUAs' impacts on agricultural development as well as the economic independence mechanism of WUAs in order to make policy suggestions for future irrigation reform. This paper tried to utilize a new approach of Difference-In-Difference to test the differential impacts on agricultural production and farmer income because of WUAs.It was concluded from a new point of view that WUAs could be a direction and a choice as an alternative way of irrigation management reform. It was found that WUAs have advantages in saving water resources, improving water use efficiency, helping disadvantaged groups such as women and elderly people to get the water for irrigation use and so on. Also WUAs can play an effective role in promoting farmer participation in irrigation management, even though this needs further research and observations in the future. WUAs possesses huge potential to get developed and to be scaled up in Hetao Irrigation Districts...