ABSTRACT
Water is a critical production input in sustainable agricultural development. A major strategy for Asian agricultural growth has been the creation or improvement of irrigation systems through water development and/or management activities (Tamaki 1977). Most of these efforts may be characterized as falling into one of three categories: (1) agency-based, bureaucratic systems, (2) community-based, communal systems, or (3) joint bureaucratic-cum-communal systems (Coward 1980). Bureaucratic systems may be defined as large-scale, and centrally planned and/or controlled; and communal ones as small-scale, and independently or locally planned and controlled (Barker et al. 1984).
