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percent (6 families).Hence, majority of farmers will
be interested in farm development activities.
• Priority analysis-
Priority analysis was worked out through the
data generated from Participatory rural appraisal and
Basic survey of village. So after prioritization of
problems, an action plan was prepared for Sanio and
Dedag villages. Water harvesting , soil management
and farm production were the issues of the prime
concern to farmers. The order of important priorities
identified by the farmers has been given in figure.
• Execution of Programme–
User group of beneficiaries was formed at village
level, which submitted resolution w.r.t Consent,
Participation, Viability of project, Area to be covered
and other Social benefits, to Watershed Executive
Committee for approval. The work was then
executed through community action by the members
of user group Sanio, and Dedag under technical
guidance of Soil Conservation Department experts
4.2. Developmental and technical Aspects
� Technical programme (Survey, Design etc.)-
After doing the priority analysis by the farmers,
technical program was made in consultation with
the expert of Irrigation and public health or engineer
of soil conservation department for different water
harvesting ,conveyance and storage structures.
Before executing the work, this technical program
was got duly approved from the experts.
� Farm Production system interventions—
• Farm Production system interventions were
finalized by the farmers in consultation with the
agricultural expert. The analysis of data was done
as per the statistical procedure by Gomes and Gomes
(1992) and suggested by CSWCRTI Dehradun and
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Sunabeda, Orissa .
• Crop fertilization index was calculated as ratio
of quantity of fertilizer used by the farmer per hectare
to the recommended fertilizer dose per hectare .
• Crop productivity Index was determined as
ratio of yield obtained by farmers per hectare to
recommended level of yield per hectare
• People participation Index was calculated as
percent of mean participation Score to
maximum participation Score.
• Economic analysis-To identify, quantify and
value the social advantages (benefits) and
disadvantages (costs)in terms of common monetary
units various interventions were analyzed for gross
returns, net returns and benefit cost analysis.
5.0 Results and discussion -
During the course of study various interventions
were demonstrated in the watershed through
participatory approach and the results obtained are
as below.
5.1. Intervention 1 - Rain water harvesting and
conveyance system from base or surface flow
at Sanio and its Socio- economic benefits.
5.2. History of Water source –
This water source is perennial one and has
average water discharge of 20-25 thousand liters
per day during normal months (having no rain
fall) but the discharge increases to 85-90
thousand liter per day during rainy season(June-
September). The farmers were taking this water to
their fields by open channel i.e traditional delivery
system locally called Bandha, there were heavy
conveyance losses as the channel was infested
with weeds, broken at several places and the
movement of water was very slow. The farmers
were not getting good recovery of water from the
system. With time this water delivery system
became faulty. Since good amount of money was
involved for its maintenance hence no body came
forward to maintain it. The source was used only by
2-3 influential and economically sound farmers and
they were taking this small amount of water through
their own delivery system i.e. plastic pipes of 1.0-
1.5" to irrigate their fields and they were able to
irrigate only 1-2 ha area and 50 plus families were
deprived off from this facility from source which