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Doubling farmers income through land shaping technologies in coastal salt-affected areas

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Title Doubling farmers income through land shaping technologies in coastal salt-affected areas
 
Creator Subhasis Mandal, D Burman, N. J. Maitra, T. K. Ghoshal, A. Velmurugan, B. Mandal and K. K. Mahanta
 
Subject Coastal agriculture, land shaping, farmers income
 
Description Technology options for increasing farmers income in coastal areas
Agriculture is the major occupation of people living in the rural areas of coastal regions in the
country but it is highly complex, risk prone and entirely dependent on the vagaries of nature. The
most practical and environmentally non-destructive way of creating irrigation resources in the
area is through harvesting of excess rainwater that goes waste as runoff into the sea. The
harvesting of excess rainwater can be done effectively through suitable land-shaping of the farm
land, which involves in modifying the surface of the farm-land for harvesting of excess rain-water
as well as making the land surface suitably shaped for adoption of improved cultivation of
diversified crops and integrated farming. The major purpose of these land shaping are for -
creating irrigation resources through harvesting excess rainwater, improving drainage congestion
of land, reducing influence of brackish groundwater-table at shallow depth for soil salinity build
up in during dry months, diversification and multiple crop cultivation round the year on monocropped
coastal land and agriculture-aquaculture-livestock integrated farming system for higher
productivity and livelihood security of poor farming communities.
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Date 2018-09-06T11:59:00Z
2018-09-06T11:59:00Z
2018-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Mandal, Subhasis, D Burman, N. J. Maitra, T. K. Ghoshal, A. Velmurugan, B. Mandal and K. K. Mahanta. 2018. Doubling farmers income through land shaping technologies in coastal salt-affected areas, INdian Farming, Vol. 68(03):31-34.
ISSN: 0019-4786
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6646
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Farming