International Journal of Agricultural Sciences

International Journal of Agricultural Sciences ISSN 2167-0447 Vol. 5 (5), pp. 824-825, July, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Evaluation performance of irrigation water management: A case study of Karacabey irrigation scheme in Turkey

Hayrettin Kuscu^1* Filiz Eren Bölüktepe² and Ali Osman Demir³

¹Department of Industrial Plants Cultivation and Evaluation, Mustafakemalpasa Vocational School, University of Uludag, 16500 Bursa, Turkey.

^*Corresponding author: E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

The objective of this study is to assess the performance of irrigation water management of the Bursa– Karacabey irrigation scheme (KIS) located in the western Turkey. The study was carried out in two stages. In the first stage, performance of irrigation water management was assessed using two physical and three financial performance indicators for six years during the period 2002–2007. According to the results, the physical performance indicators, which are average irrigation ratio and relative water supply, were found to be 61% and 0.77, respectively. Nevertheless, the financial performance indicators, which are the effectiveness of fee collection, the financial self sufficiency of fees collected to cover management, operating and maintenance budgets, and the staffing number per unit area were found as average 103%, 0.94 and 0.003 persons/ha, respectively. In the second stage, the irrigation water management was tested and assessed by the Logit model taking farmers perceptions concerning satisfaction with taking irrigation service. The probability of the satisfaction in irrigation fee policy and maintenance of irrigation and drainage canals was significant at 0.01 and 0.05 levels, respectively. Most of participants (80%) who use water from the KIS have been satisfied with taking service from the Karacabey Water Users’ Association. According to the research results, it may be claim that the management with regard to physical performance was negative; on the other hand, the management with regard to financial performance and water user satisfaction was positive.

Key words: Irrigation management, performance indicators, water user association, logit model, farmer satisfaction.

International Journal of Agricultural Sciences Vol. 5 (5), pp. 812-817, July, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Commentary

Africa’s Challenge in the 21st Century – Food Security

Department of Library and Information Science, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria.

Iyasere Eguono

Accepted 16 March, 2014

International Journal of Agricultural Sciences Vol. 5 (5), pp. 809-811, July, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Editorial 

Charting the agricultural land of South America

Department of Agriculture and Food Technology, Florida State University.

Damian Nathaniel

Accepted 22 March, 2014

International Journal of Agricultural Sciences ISSN 2167-0447 Vol. 5 (5), pp. 796-806, July, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Interview

How to cultivate an ecological farmer

Department of Agriculture and Food Technology, Florida State University, USA.

Damian Nathaniel

Accepted 22 March, 2014

INTRODUCTION

The 2012 Quivira Coalition conference was my second. I had come the year before to hear the likes of Christine Jones, Doug Weatherbee, Greg Judy, Sara Scherr, and David Montgomery; I came back to hear Allan Savory, Gabe Brown, Jill Clapperton and a group of other amazing speakers in 2012.

At this second conference, I noticed that one wiry, gravel-voiced woman shot up her hand after every speaker. She asked questions -- tough questions! -- or commented on their speech, and I could see that whoever was at the dais took the audience a little more seriously because she was there. I learned from her as well as from the scheduled speakers.

Luane Todd is simply a dynamo of agricultural wisdom and enthusiasm. She was a Texas city girl whose husband convinced her to move to a rundown Ozarks ranch to raise cattle in 1975. By the time he left 11 years later, she had fallen in love with the place – with the rolling wooded hills, the rhythms of nature, the animals and the promise of the grassland. She knew that if she was going to run the ranch successfully by herself, she had to find a better approach than that urged by the ag experts – a costly combination of tillage, seed and chemical purchases, and visits from the vet. Todd became an ecological pioneer, figuring out how to work with nature so that her land, animals, and cash flow thrived.

Now retired, she reads extensively and travels to conferences to build upon her own hard-won wisdom and pass it on to the next generation of farmers and ranchers.

International Journal of Agricultural Sciences ISSN 2167-0447 Vol. 5 (5), pp. 793-795, July, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Editorial

A brief survey of Agricultural Development in Nigeria

Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria.

Oghale Egbabor and Iyasere Harriet

Accepted 06 March, 2014

Agriculture in Nigeria has greatly improved in the past few years because of the advent of technology and other necessary infrastructures. Initially, most Nigerian farmers merely engage in subsistence farming to provide food for their family while very little is made available in the market. Growth in agricultural output has no doubt been on the rise as farmers are stepping away from subsistence agriculture and embracing modern farming techniques - investing in large scale farming and ultimately increasing agricultural products