Only 1.5 per cent of the total irrigated area in India is under micro-irrigation; "lousy delivery mechanism', and not lack of funds, is the reason. G.P. Sampath Kumar Trickle-down effect: Micro- irrigation can help farmers make judicious use of scarce water resources. Rasheeda Bhagat After a 90-minute early morning walk, "it is the usual yoga and exercise for 40 minutes. I spend more than two hours in maintaining this body, which is growing old at the age of 71, with five heart-attacks.' It is like a badge of honour that Jain Irrigation Systems Chairman Bhavarlal H. Jain wears his "five heart-attacks, two bypass operations, one angioplasty and one instrument sitting here (pats his heart)