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Socio-Economic Impact of Selected Land Shaping Techniques in Coastal Areas of Sundarbans, West Bengal

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Title Socio-Economic Impact of Selected Land Shaping Techniques in Coastal Areas of Sundarbans, West Bengal
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Creator SUBHASIS MANDAL, D. BURMAN, S. K. SARANGI, K. K. MAHANTA , U. K. MANDAL, B. K. BANDYPADHYAY and B. MAJI
 
Subject Land shaping techniques, socio-economic impact, coastal agriculture
 
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The National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP)
has been implementing sub-project on ‘Strategies
for Sustainable Management of Degraded Coastal
Land and Water for Enhancing Livelihood Security
of Farming Communities’ in coastal areas of
Sundarbans since 2009. One of the key interventions
has been construction of different kind of land
shaping models in farmers field to enhance cropping
intensities, employment and farm income. Primary
focus under these technologies has been to create
on-farm reservoir for rainwater harvesting and
creating the opportunities to grow multiple crops
through utilization of harvested rainwater. Besides,
salt tolerant rice verities and other suitable crops
have been suggested to enhance the farm income.
The study pertains to primary survey on farm households in South & North 24 Parganas districts
of West Bengal where the NAIP project has been
implemented. Results indicated that the land shaping
techniques have been highly suitable for enhancing
the farm income and employment in the coastal
region. Such techniques are financially viable for
long-term investment in the region. Farmers’ have
shown keen interest to adopt these techniques in their
own land. However, meeting the initial investment
for construction of these techniques has been major
constraints of poor farmers’ for larger adoption of
these technologies. Up-scaling of these techniques to
large number of farmers’ field can be made possible
through converging many of the Govt. schemes, such
as MGNREGA, BGREI etc, that are continuing in
this region.
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Date 2018-11-12T11:28:49Z
2018-11-12T11:28:49Z
2013-12-01
 
Type Other
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10548
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research