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Case study examining the relationship between traditional rain fed agricultural methods, food security and agricultural biodiversity in the poor growing conditions on the Deccan plateau in Southern India. The article describes the implementation of careful and complex farming strategies used in the region to extract the most benefit from the fragile dryland soils. In particular the author stresses the importance of crop diversity to these farmers as a strategy to protect their crops against pests and drought and documents their fine understanding of the characteristics of different varieties using participatory rural appraisal PRA.
The article then moves into a discussion of the social dimension of crop variety selection documenting the gender dimension of the process whereby women may plant several varieties of crops such that the yield of each is too small for it to be worth their husbands selling it at market. This allows them to stockpile greater quantities of food in the home and thus increases, in their eyes, their families food security.
Also described briefly are the cultural implications of the seasons and agricultural cycle. Finally the article considers the potential impacts of trends towards market dependency and cash cropping in the region which have often been encouraged by state policy. Lakes spewing foam and catching fire in Bangalore made big news for several weeks but this is just an indication of the times to come as we fill up water bodies with effluents or turn them into sewage dumps in most cities across India.
India Water Portal talks to Leo F. Saldanha of Bangalore-based Environment Support Group on how to manage these precious resources. Chitradurga district in Karnataka receives the lowest rainfall in the state. According to the Drought Monitoring Board, most borewells are dry and where there is water, its quality is poor. Chitradurga district in southern Karnataka is infamous for drought. People here constantly suffer from water shortage and in the last few years, the problem has escalated due to poor rainfall.
South Deccan Plateau. Amidst Covid second wave, two cyclones hit the Indian coasts News this fortnight Swati Bansal posted 5 months 1 week ago Cyclone Tauktae hit the west coast, while Yaas batters the east coast. Horizontal wells bring more water Adda boring is emerging as a cleaner alternative to vertical boring keeping farmers happy. River health goes south In a two-part series, we look at the health of rivers across India.
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