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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Dhawan, H.; Kulkarni, Himanshu; Phadnis, V.; Badrayani, U. |
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Conference:
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Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Hyderabad, India |
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Conf. Date:
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January 10-14 |
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Date:
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2011 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7142
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Sector:
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Agriculture
Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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groundwater
agriculture
watersheds
irrigation
crops
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Abstract:
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"This paper examines the agriculture development pattern in Chikhalgaon village of Kolwan valley located in Western Ghats of Maharashtra, post watershed and minor irrigation tanks development. It highlights the importance of scientific information for the commons by demonstrating how even a simple synthesis of irrigated cropping pattern in a village is quite complex. Understanding this complexity holds the key to microplanning of land, water and crop management in a village. The main focus was on distribution of irrigated cropping, and sources of irrigation in Chikhalgaon village, which facilitated in analyzing the trend of cropping pattern change post various water conservation measures adopted in the Kolwan valley. This study is mainly based upon the primary agricultural cropping data collected from farmers fields, government land records data served as secondary source while remote sensing data was used as a background check for verifying pre-1998 agriculture data. Synthesis of data was done using GIS software. The study was undertaken under the broader umbrella of an ongoing international research project called 'Augmenting Groundwater Resources by Artificial Recharge' (AGRAR), focusing on the Kolwan valley site."
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