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Demand management becomes the key to the overall strategy for managing scarce water resources (Molden et al. 2001). Since agriculture is the major competitive user of diverted water in India (GOI 1999), demand management in agriculture in water-scarce and water-stressed regions would be central to reducing the aggregate demand for water to match wit