date:Oct 16, 2019
ought we would grow for fewer months, said Salunke. Even in a good water year, the family would sow in only 2 ha of the total farmland.
About 15 years ago, Salunke heard of a farmers training programme at Maharashtras Water and Land Management Institute at Aurangabad. He enrolled in the 5-day training programme, came back to his village and used the familys savings to build a one-acre watershed pond on his farm. That year, the water accumulated in the pond during the monsoons was used to irriga