Watershed Management and Participation of Rural Women
2013
Tripathy, S.N.
In India, essentially on account of soil erosion from run-off, and the struggle to cope with a diverse range of agro-climatic, production and market risks, millions of poor and marginal farmers depend on degraded land in rain-fed areas. Under such a situation, the serious challenge is how to manage land and water sustainably to achieve higher productivity levels, husbanding resources for future generations and deriving livelihoods in the most equitable manner to the poor. Small holder farmers, livestock keepers, forest users, and others who derive livelihoods from land and water find that their interactions affect others in a watershed context. In the subsistence economy of the rural areas, women share a major responsibility for maintaining the family; their contribution ranges from earning as wage labourers, collection of fuel and fodder for consumption as well as for cash earning, taking care of cattle and helping in their own farmland. In this backdrop, the present study has been carried out with the use of both primary and secondary sources of data and the participation of rural women in the watershed management of Mandhal village in Kuhi block of Nagpur district of Maharashtra in the Vidarbha region in the east, which has been purposively selected for this study. Mandhal village has been selected by the same technique for exploration of field data and analysis.
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