Malawi economic monitor, February 2024
Watersheds play a crucial role in sustaining the ecosystem, biodiversity, wildlife, agriculture, and human population by serving as the natural resource base for all forms of life. These natural boundaries
Watershed Development
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Mid-Himalyan watershed development project brings sea-change
Bimlo Devi, like any other woman of Sherpur Village in Chamba District, would wake up before dawn and trek almost eight kms of hilly forest terrain every day to get fodder for her cattle.
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Include micro-shed development in NREGS, says Desarda
Pune Former member of Maharashtra State Planning Board H M Desarda has proposed that the government incorporate
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Groundwater being exploited in absence of law
Inordinate delay in implementation of the Himachal Pradesh Groundwater (Regulation and Control of Development and Management) Act is leading to over exploitation of groundwater resources in some highly stressed areas.
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Trees are brothers
THE protection of forests and rivers is at the heart of protecting the ecology of the Himalayas. But any long-term, sustainable effort must include the concerns of people living near forests and rivers.
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Estimation of natural recharge and its relation with aquifer parameters in and around Tuticorin town, Tamil Nadu, India
This article describes the estimation of natural recharge and determination of aquifer parameters of a watershed located in coastal belt around Tuticorin town, Tamil Nadu, India, using radioactive tracer and pumping test methods. Recharge measurements were made at several spots to weathered gneiss, shale limestone, quartzite and coastal alluvium formations using tritium injection technique.
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India, China woo Japan on ADB's Arunachal loan
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi July 10, 2009, 0:15 IST The diplomatic tug of war between India and China over the $60 million loan from the Asian Development Bank, or ADB, for Arunachal Pradesh has entered a new arena: Japan. Both India and China are trying to win over Asia
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Simulation of storm sediment yield from an agricultural watershed using musle, remote sensing and GIS
A study was carried out for the simulation of sediment yield from an agricultural watershed falling in laterite zone of West Bengal using event scale Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE).
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Effect of agronomic management on watershed productivity, impact indices, crop diversification and soil fertility
Land degradation, subsistence farming with poor crop harvests and lack of employment opportunities has resulted in poverty in eastern ghats of Orissa. To avert the situation, IWDP and TDET watershed projects were implemented in Kokriguda watershed which represents the resource position of this tribal region, during 1997 to 2003.
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Reduced hyrologic risks to plant growth from carryover effect of rainfall within a watershed
Hydrological risks to agriculture are mainly due to inadequate or erratic rainfall resulting in deficit water stress to crop plants. The susceptibility of agriculture production system to such risks can be assessed from the characteristics of rainfall, soil and plant.
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A new policy for watershed management in India
In this paper a new dimension has been added to watershed management by proposing a whole programme by reorienting Bioindustrial Watershed Management. Land holdings are small, and are getting smaller. Even after all the available agricultural production technology, the small land holder's income are still remain small.