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
-
Runoff variation due to landuse change in small watersheds of Western Ghats
Western Ghats form the catchment of all the 44 rivers that sustain the agroeconomy of Kerala. A study was conducted to assess the effect of land use on runoff from small watersheds of Western Ghats. Three small mono-culture watersheds, planted with cashew, coffee, tea and one small watershed with dense forest were selected for the study.
-
It holds no water
Shoddy planning and poor execution mar many watershed revival projects
-
Out on their own
Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers
-
Village Punukula s different
Managing yields without pesticides
-
Mourn
But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge
-
A debt ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers
"The strategy for agriculture will certainly create new jobs, especially in the allied sector. However, agriculture's share of employment will actually reduce, from the current 70 per cent to 40-45
-
INEVITABLE TRAGEDY
SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state wide farmers suicide lies one decade of neglect. Of agriculture, which sustains 70 per cent of its people, actually rendered unproductive and life denying.
-
Human touch in credit
The growth of a women s group that moved from being a savings unit to a social voice
-
Why only panchayats?
Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively
-
Jungle rule
Protect forests, get clean water