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Socio-economic Assessment of Participatory Watershed Development programme in Maharashtra

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Title Socio-economic Assessment of Participatory Watershed Development programme in Maharashtra
M Sc
 
Creator TUSHAR RAMCHANDRA ATHARE
 
Contributor Baldeo Singh
 
Subject participation, land resources, irrigation, manpower, crops, area, economics, marketing, biological phenomena, self help
 
Description T-8336
Watershed is a natural hydrological entity that covers a specific area of land surface within
whose boundaries the entire rainfall runoff ultimately passes through a specifically defined
stream. Thus, watershed concept aims to establish an enabling environment for the integrated
use, regulation and treatment of water and land resources of watershed based on ecosystem to
accomplish resource conservation. Participation of people and sustainability of watershed
development programmes are major issues in watershed development. Ralegaon Siddhi is one
of the notable examples of participatory watershed development programme in Maharashtra
under the leadership of Anna Hazare. So a study was conducted in Ralegaon Siddhi and
Jategaon villages of parner tahsil of Maharashtra state of India with the key objective of
studying participatory processes and extent of participation, assessing the impact of
watershed, constraints faced by respondents in participation along with suggestions. The
Maharashtra state, Ahmadnagar district and parner tahsil were selected purposively as the
famous Ralegaon Siddhi watershed is located there. Another nonwatershed village Jategaon
was selected randomly among the nonwatershed villages adjacent to the Ralegaon Siddhi.
The 60 respondents from Ralegaon Siddhi watershed and 40 respondents from Jategaon
village were selected randomly for the study purpose. Research revealed that different
participatory processes like ban on grazing, tree felling, dowry and voluntary labour, grain
bank, community marriages, village transformation day are followed by villagers. Most of the
respondents had medium and some had very high level of participation in different watershed
activities. Education, income, land holding, occupation, house type, household size, land
holding were found to be positively correlated with participation. Impact study revealed that
cropping intensity, employment created in mandays per acre per year, land value per acre, b:c
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ratio of two major crops of the area jowar and onion were higher whereas soil erosion was
much lower in Ralegaon Siddhi village as compared to Jategaon. Water table was found at
around 6 meters in Ralegaon Siddhi whereas in Jategaon it was found at the depth of about 12
meters. Parameters like employment, cropping intensity, land value, b:c ratio of onion and
jowar were significantly higher in Ralegaon Siddhi. Major constraints faced by the
respondents were procedural delays, non availability of funds when most needed, longer time
taken for identification and prioritization of problems and needs, poor quality materials and
hence poor works and lack of post implementation budgets for maintenance and sustainable
management of watershed. Among the major suggestion given by respondents were good and
dedicated leadership, decision by consensus of all stakeholders and encourage people to take
their own initiatives rather than relying for everything on government, organizing farmers
into watershed development committees, forming women SHGs.
 
Date 2016-10-22T12:10:18Z
2016-10-22T12:10:18Z
2010
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/81392
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher IARI, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION