Vol. 6, Issue 6 (2018)
A case study on contemporary water management innovation (CWMI) in sustainable agriculture: Farmers joined hands for mutual survival and prosperity: The case of Kummarvandlapalli
Author(s): Sanjay Kumar Gupta and DUM Rao
Abstract: Water management was virtually unknown to farmers. Farmers had been using scarce water resources injudiciously, which had resulted in undue wastage of water. Defunct water harvesting structures were not being repaired in time. The farmers also never saw ‘water sharing’ and ‘water economy’ as a priority issue. Social exclusion was at a high and the Dalit community had no access to major sources of irrigation water but it become possible through contemporary water management innovations sharing of water to dalit community as well through water sharing practices. Dryland farmers faced with an uncertainty of declining water table, drying up of the aquifer in times of a drought year when rains fail to recharge the water aquifer and raise water table. Yet they were not worried, because under the social regulation programme, water sharing is now made possible. The striking characteristics of this contemporary innovations are that they address the community mobilization and elicit farmers’ participation for concerted group actions for solving all inter-related problems through farming systems approach in the whole agro-ecosystem. A case study analysis revealed the way the water sharing group of farmers were able to grow crops through the use of social regulatory measures in water sharing groups, micro-irrigation and conservation agronomic practices and were able to enhance their incomes.
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Sanjay Kumar Gupta, DUM Rao. A case study on contemporary water management innovation (CWMI) in sustainable agriculture: Farmers joined hands for mutual survival and prosperity: The case of Kummarvandlapalli. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(6):2283-2287.
