dc.description.abstract | The Irrigation Association adheres to the irrigation and water conservancy services as the aim, and its function is to solve the agricultural water problem, so as to promote and implement the agricultural irrigation and drainage service, promote the agricultural development, improve farmland’s production, increase farmers’ income, prosper rural community, ensure food security, maintain environment and ecology, etc. Its mission is to strengthen the construction of water conservancy works and operation management, as well as give consideration to conservation policy of ecological environment, in a bid to develop the three functions (production function, ecological function and life function) of irrigation and water conservancy and promote it as the national irrigation and water conservancy services.
This study adopted document analysis method and in-depth interview to conduct the research, so as to discuss and analyze the organizational evolution and continuous development of the Irrigation Association in Hakka area, how it operates and how it applies the organizational effectiveness of “co-production” system. The professional management knowledge and skills in agricultural irrigation water possessed by the Irrigation Association, the supplied water conservancy service and the management and operation of agricultural irrigation water are combined with the abundant interpersonal network of “substratum water conservancy team”, social capital and the public-private partnership to constitute the trust and reliance, supporting and mutual aid between Irrigation Association and farmer membership. Thus, one longitudinal governance mechanism is produced, so as to jointly push forward the public affairs related to public interests, complete the distribution management of service membership, water distribution and water delivery, reach the anticipated goal of fairness and efficiency in agricultural irrigation water and improve the value and efficiency of irrigation service.
As for the conclusion of this study, with the change of time, there is no significant and differential treatment in the irrigation service’s co-production relations with Hakka and Minnan ethnic groups. Only the change in operating environment has also influenced the co-production operational relationship between Irrigation Association and water conservancy team. Irrigation Association is the sustainable operation of irrigation and water conservancy service. The co-production and mutual aid between the Irrigation Association and substratum water conservancy team, governmental supervision, assistance, etc should have the appropriate strategy of operation management: (1) responding the special administrative tasks and formulating the sound legal system and localization; (2) striving for subsidies and promoting construction of water conservancy works; (3) formulating the laws and regulation as soon as possible and reinforcing the prevention and management of water pollution; (4) intensifying membership to participate in irrigation service and building the national water conservancy business; (5) reasonably compensating the allocation and transfer with compensation for water right and maintaining the rights and interests of the Irrigation Association and farmers; (6) strengthening the sound and stable financial resources and multi-orientation management.
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