Future of agriculture production and food security will be jeopardize without the development of rainfed agriculture, which at present is characterised by low yields, degraded natural resources and widespread poverty.
Watershed development projects extensively funded by both national and external donors through in situ moisture conservation, land development, vegetative cover techniques leads to sustained agriculture development besides developing dairy, sericulture, fishery, horticulture, agro-forestry, human skills, income-employment potentials among rural masses. Performance indicators suggest that watershed development programmes leads to change in cropping intensity, adoption of new varieties, increased productivity and net return to cultivators.
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