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This SpringerBrief reviews currently applied and potential solutions for improving the efficiency and quality of rural electricity supply in India, a major bottleneck for agricultural development. It provides background on the current state of supply and reviews recent and ongoing research and development projects. One selected project, designed and conducted by the authors, is outlined in detail. The research findings, project implementation, and evaluation are intended to provide development practitioners, policy makers, and applied researchers with experience from the field. At the core of this Brief is the integration of technical and social solutions, emphasizing the role of collective action, and the merits and demerits of small-scale, technically simple measures.

Agricultural Economics --- Business & Economics --- Irrigation efficiency --- Irrigation --- Water resources development --- Energy consumption --- Efficiency, Irrigation --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Water in agriculture --- Chemigation --- Irrigation farming --- Irrigation scheduling --- Irrigation water --- Water efficiency --- Agricultural economics. --- Project management. --- Social work. --- Environmental management. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Project Management. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Social Work. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Industrial project management --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Agriculture --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- Energy efficiency. --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation