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S S A N
Working towards bringing about a
qualitative change in the watershed based development programs
in India, Providing Capacity Building and Support Services
for development initiatives in Natural Resources Management with
a focus on promoting Livelihoods of Poor, Economic and Gender
Equity
India's Soil Crisis
It is projected that India will need to
grow
its agricultural output 12% to feed its people in 2020. Much of
this has to come by growing more on the same amount of land. This
land, however, is weakening and withering, reports M. Rajshekhar.
Read more....
Farmers on Holiday
Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this
kharif in absence
of buyers, storage space. Analysts say this perhaps the first
time in the countyr that paddy farmers have resorted to such a
drastic step, that too in a green revolution belt. Read
more....
Synthesizing
Impact Assessment of Watershed Programs in U.P.
Government
of India (GoI) has commissioned this study to know the impacts
of watershed program in nine Indian states. At national level
this study is anchored by National Institute of Rural Development
(NIRD). This study is basically intended to know the impacts of
watershed development program through the components of Physical
Factors, Biological Factors, Economical Factors and Social Factors
as perceived by farmers..
Watershed
Support Services And Activities Network (W A S S A N) 12-13-452, Street No:1, Tarnaka, Secunderabad-
500 017, Andhra Pradesh, India. Ph:
+ 91- 40- 27015295 / 27015296
E-mail
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quit
agriculture if they had an alternative
Bangalorean who has won the Magsaysay Award for Right Livelihood,
tells Deepa Ganesh that hope lies in rural India.
big
water, big challenges: Water in an urbanizing world
grow
its agricultural output 12% to feed its people in 2020. Much of
this has to come by growing more on the same amount of land. This
land, however, is weakening and withering, reports M. Rajshekhar.
