Phases of Irrigation Development in Asian Tropics: A Case Study of the Philippines and Sri Lanka
利用菲律宾和斯里兰卡过去五十年的数据，研究了热带季风亚洲岛国水稻部门经历的三个农业发展阶段的转变，发现最新阶段的灌溉修复和管理改善投资不足，尽管回报率很高。
Using data for the Philippines and Sri Lanka during the last five decades, we examine three phases of agricultural development experienced by the rice sector in insular countries in tropical monsoon Asia; the first was based on land opening, the second on new irrigation construction and the third on increasing the efficiency of the existing irrigated land base. We show that these sequential shifts were induced by changes in the relative profitability of the three major means of land development for increasing food production. Rehabilitation, water management improvement and better maintenance, which are important means of irrigation development in the latest phase, are under-invested, despite their high rates of return.