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Rain water harvesting and recycling technology for sustainable use of small agricultural watersheds*

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Title Rain water harvesting and recycling technology for sustainable use of small agricultural watersheds*
 
Creator ADAV, R P Y
AGGARWAL, R K
SINGH, PRATAP
ARYA, S L
PRASAD, RAM
TIWARI, A K
BHATTACHARY, P
YADAV, M K
 
Subject Rainwarer harvesting; Recycling; Agricultural watersheds; Crop production? Ponds; Supplemental irrigation
 
Description The technology of rainwater harvesting and recycling developed and tested at village Johranpur in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh has proved very effective. Run off in the range of 16.4 to 29.5 % of rainfall received during monsoon was harvested and recycled back to the contributing area. It resulted in 1.7 and 3.2 times wheat yield wit11 1 and 2 supplemental irrigations respectively. Alternative crops like tomato, ginger and brinjal provided higher gross return / unit use of harvested rainwater. Better returns from alternative crops favoured diversification in the watershed and area under traditional maize-wheat rotation decreased from 91 to 49 %. This modelitechnology can be replicated in the regions receiving annual rainfall > 1000 mm and having gentle to moderate slope to produce run off of more than 25 cm for sustainable agriculture production from small watershed. 
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2011-01-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/3049
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 76, No 8 (2006)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/3049/1117
 
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