Water Harvesting and Efficient Land Utilization in Satpura Hilly Area [Jabalpur]
WATER HARVESTING AND
EFFICIENT LAND UTILIZATION IN SATPURA HILLY AREA [JABALPUR]
PANKAJ PANDYA
Farm Equipment Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., 506-509 Apeksha Apartment, Sector-11, Hiran Magri, Udaipur, Rajasthan – 313001, India
Email: pandya.pankaj@mahindra.com
VIKARAM SINGH YADAV LAKSHYA (NGO) 384-Sanjivani Nagar, Garha, Jabalpur, MP – 482004, India Email: vikramsyadav@rediffmail.com
Abstract
A famous statement is that the next world war if happen is only for taking the ownership of the water and than land. In Satpura hilly area there are many adverse and negative conditions are persist which does not permit crop productions like deficiency of water, high pumping cost, heavy ecological problems as water and wind erosion, high transportation cost, no support from canals and rivers, undeveloped waste land, limited agronomical acceptability. Soil and water engineering gives many operational structures which drive the sustainable cultivation in hilly and mountainous regions. For the proper water management taking area in to account we make a percolation tank which take the water in the monsoon seasons and permit that water to percolate and increase the ground water potential and this percolation tank can also be used as a farm pond by covering the bottom with polythin according to the need and that storage water uses in dry seasons and critical stages of the crop production. To protect the land cover and soil we make a grassed water way which takes the runoff water away from the cropping field, and we provide the bench terraces which make the cultivation easier and allow inter culturing operation comfortably, it reduces the soil erosion as well as unnecessary water logging in some areas. At the end of the grassed water way a drop inlet spill way provides greater strength to soil conservation. By the drip irrigation (Most effective & efficient method)
EFFICIENT LAND UTILIZATION IN SATPURA HILLY AREA [JABALPUR]
PANKAJ PANDYA
Farm Equipment Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., 506-509 Apeksha Apartment, Sector-11, Hiran Magri, Udaipur, Rajasthan – 313001, India
Email: pandya.pankaj@mahindra.com
VIKARAM SINGH YADAV LAKSHYA (NGO) 384-Sanjivani Nagar, Garha, Jabalpur, MP – 482004, India Email: vikramsyadav@rediffmail.com
Abstract
A famous statement is that the next world war if happen is only for taking the ownership of the water and than land. In Satpura hilly area there are many adverse and negative conditions are persist which does not permit crop productions like deficiency of water, high pumping cost, heavy ecological problems as water and wind erosion, high transportation cost, no support from canals and rivers, undeveloped waste land, limited agronomical acceptability. Soil and water engineering gives many operational structures which drive the sustainable cultivation in hilly and mountainous regions. For the proper water management taking area in to account we make a percolation tank which take the water in the monsoon seasons and permit that water to percolate and increase the ground water potential and this percolation tank can also be used as a farm pond by covering the bottom with polythin according to the need and that storage water uses in dry seasons and critical stages of the crop production. To protect the land cover and soil we make a grassed water way which takes the runoff water away from the cropping field, and we provide the bench terraces which make the cultivation easier and allow inter culturing operation comfortably, it reduces the soil erosion as well as unnecessary water logging in some areas. At the end of the grassed water way a drop inlet spill way provides greater strength to soil conservation. By the drip irrigation (Most effective & efficient method)
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