IWMP-2 - Commissionerate of Rural Development Gujarat State

IWMP-2 Mahiyari
Project area vs. District vs. State vs. Country vs. World:
“The term productivity in general means the total output per unit of factor input. For example land productivity means output per hectare of
land. Productivity is an average and is calculated by dividing the total output of a particular crop by the total cultivated area under that crop.”
Data are made available by the Baseline survey (for Mahiyari village), Handbook of Agriculture, ICAR publication 2006(For Gujarat and India),
and Final district plan (IWDP) of Dept. of Agriculture (for Porbandar). The results indicate that Mahiyari Watershed Project has very low
productivity compared to world, India, Gujarat and Porbandar. The productivity is low not only because that the land is unproductive or the
farmer’s lack the skills to manage their crop but also due lack to of source of irrigation, salty water and scarcity of rain.
The Mahiyari village comes under arid zone. So farmers grow crop according to the rainfall. If they get good rainfall they generally grow high
value crops like Ground nut, Juwar etc. In case of low rainfall they can’t take any crops. So we can say that monsoon decides cropping patterns
of Mahiyari Project.
The world productivity of Ground nuts is 665.80 kg/ha. In India, it is grown in about 7.3 lakh hectares with a production of 8.0 lakh tonnes and
productivity of 1,094 kg/ha. Gujarat alone produces about 80% of the total castor of our country from 50% of the area with a record
productivity of about 1950 kg/ha. Porbandar district has very good productivity 1300 kg /ha. The Mahiyari project area has only 250 kg/ha
productivity. It is very low compare to district, State, India and world.
District Watershed Development Unit, Porbandar