Diversification and intensification in crop and dairy farming through watershed interventions
2022
SHARATH G M | KUPPUSAMY PONNUSAMY | PALANISAMY RAMASUNDARAM
Watersheds are part of our natural social unit. Assessment of watershed interventions helps us understand the productivity enhancement as well as issues impacting the performance of watershed. The present study aimed to assess the impact of watershed interventions on farm productivity was conducted in Chitradurga district of Karnataka during 2019 by selecting 120 beneficiary and 40 control farmers. The positive impact was reported on control of soil erosion and also improvement of soil fertility. Additional improvement was perceived in the control of surface run off. About 67 respondents reported more than 25 % rise in their crop income. Cropping intensity increased significantly in all the watershed villages. Productivity of crops in the farmer field increased by 9.34% in cotton, 11.60% in onion, 15.17% in sunflower, 21.75% in maize and 27.83% in chickpea. The productivity of two major crops of the region, viz. groundnut (kharif) and finger millet (rabi) increased by 23.28 and 33.02%, respectively. Water management is one of the potential tools of productivity augmentation and resource saving, where the findings of present study would act as a supporting evidence for sustainable development of crops and dairy farming.
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by Directory of Open Access Journals