{"id":807,"date":"2007-10-17T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=807"},"modified":"2007-10-17T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:28:01","slug":"simple-water-harvesting-techniques-for-drought-proof-farming-a-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/807","title":{"rendered":"Simple water harvesting techniques for drought proof farming &#8211; a case study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt on this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEQ20071016025807&amp;Page=Q&amp;Headline=They+turn+dry+land+into+oasis&amp;Title=ORISSA&amp;Topic=0&amp;\">a report in New Indian Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 10 decimal land covered with vegetable plants of different varieties is now a source of income for Hari Podh of Khamarbadmal village, 50 km from here. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today, traders wait at his farm to buy vegetables plucked straight from his field. This, apparently, is something new the village is witnessing. With no water source, vegetable cultivation was a dream for the villagers. But intervention by an NGO, Mass, changed it all.<\/p>\n<p>Hari just had to invest Rs 4,000 for constructing a Chahala (a small water harvesting body dug at the lowest point of land) and this changed the condition of his land.<\/p>\n<p>Hari\u2019s not the lone case. Joseph Bage of the same village invested Rs 10,000 on his three acre land and constructed a traditional water harvesting body. Now, his land is completely drought-proof.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Khamarbadmal was one among the drought-hit villages in the region. People had land but no food. Poor quality of land devoid of supplementary irrigation sources yielded no results.<\/p>\n<p>However, inspired by Hari and Joseph, the villagers are now in the process of constructing a series of water harvesting structures which when completed, will make 80 per cent of cultivable area of their village totally drought-proof and open up income generating sources. Mass is providing the villagers financial support for the purpose.<\/p>\n<p>They have planned a total of 22 water harvesting structures of different types, shapes and structures depending on their suitability.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, they are taking up farm land improvement activities. They have already completed construction of six structures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt on this from a report in New Indian Express. The 10 decimal land covered with vegetable plants of different varieties is now a source of income for Hari Podh of Khamarbadmal village, 50 km from here. &#8230; Today, traders wait at his farm to buy vegetables plucked straight from his field. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,244,20,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture-all","category-philanthropy","category-district-sambalpur","category-water-harvesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}