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Water Harvestig Excel Crop Care Ltd

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Water Harvesting
Farming needs continual supply of water and a sound land to cultivate their crop. Overuse of ground water and increase in the salinity of the soil has brought farming communities to realise the need for conservation and restoration of land and water as resource. Therefore, the need for water management and artificial or man-made restoration system is required.
The various ways of carrying out water management * Rainwater Harvesting * Preventing and netting overspill from catchments * Storing Floodwaters * Watershed management

Integrated River Basin Management
The Integrated River Basin Management can be defined as the process of coordinating conservation, management, and development of water, land, and related resources, across sectors, within a given river basin.
An integrated approach using the whole River Basin as a basis for holistic and sustainable planning, can provide a good solution to ensure Economic, Social and Environmental sustainability and ensure Food & Water security.
The various techniques of water harvesting are applied on the basis of some criteria Problem | Strategy | Activity Plan | Expected Impact | Over exploitation of Ground water | Ground water Recharge | Rainwater harvesting structures like check dams | Increase in water table | Salinity ingress in coastal aquifers | Checking sea water intrusion | Construction of ‘Bandhara’, sub surface dyke | Improvement in ground water quality | Poor quality drinking water | Storing rain water | Roof top rain water harvesting, filter well in tank | Availability of good quality drinking water | Decreasing crop productivity & Soil degradation | Mitigating ill effect of chemicals and saline irrigation water | Promoting use of compost, green manuring and drip irrigation | IranImprovement in soil quality,

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