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The Wye College Irrigation Game

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Irrigation and Drainage Systems

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An irrigation management role-playing game is described. The game aims to provide experience of the problems and complexities of real irrigation management issues, and practice in the application of basic theoretical concepts and methods which are relevant to the successful operation and maintenance of an irrigation scheme. Players acting as farmers or as scheme managers make decisions regarding the operation of a scheme which are processed by micro-computer. Experience shows that the game can achieve its training objectives, stimulates discussion of a wide range of factors affecting the success of irrigation schemes and has the potential for further development.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Wye College, University of London, TN25 5AH, Wye, Ashford, Kent, UK

    L. E. D. Smith

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Smith, L.E.D. The Wye College Irrigation Game. Irrig Drainage Syst 3, 255–264 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01112809

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