Sustainable land use in semi-arid tropics: Can a watershed management approach work?
1997
Chennamaneni, R.
Wathershed is defined as the land area from which water drains to a common point and is synonymous to catchment and drainage basin ideally suits for collective and efficient management of resources. This paper, based on field studies in the years 1992/93, 1993/94 and 1994/95, throws more light on the factors responsible for the gap between the approach and the impacts of this technology on sustainable land use practices of the farming community. The components of the pilot project at Maheswaram (1987-92) under study are: conservation measures, production systems and treatment of non-arable lands. Primary and secondary data, two villages under watershed and two under nonwatershed conditions of same agro-ecological/socio-economic region for comparison, totally 152 farmers of small, medium and large farm groups comprise the material for study. Following the conceptual framework of a subsector approach, the performance of the watershed management was evaluated. Conclusions are given.
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