A new policy for watershed management in India

  • 01/07/2009

  • Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

In this paper a new dimension has been added to watershed management by proposing a whole programme by reorienting Bioindustrial Watershed Management. Land holdings are small, and are getting smaller. Even after all the available agricultural production technology, the small land holder's income are still remain small. The way forward is to add processing to agriculture within integrated watershed management systems and add value to thr produce of the land.