A study on adoption of low-cost and no-cost technologies of watershed management by tribal farmers of Navsari district of South Gujarat

Farming in India largely depends upon vagaries of monsoon causing dwindling in the production. Now a day's Watershed Management is a new avenue for developing the rainfed areas. Government has launched ambitious watershed management activities for development of rainfed areas started science from July 1986, covering 16 states of India and 99 districts of Gujarat state as a new trust to improve village economy with an objective to promote holistic growth of the agricultural and allied sector through area based regionally different strategies; to increase and stabilize the agricultural production and narrowing down regional socio-economic imbalance in rainfed areas through development of natural resource base, diversify the rainfed farming system, tapping the local resource potential to attain higher productivity and services for improving standard of living of rural poor and tribal.