Shimla: Initiative to build a water pool to store rainwater for the use of agriculture to change the life of farmers in the Rajgarh block in the Sirmaur Pradesh district.
Previously, agriculture in the block depends on the rain and a lot of time farmers used to see crop failure.
Now, the failure of harvest slowly becomes something from the past because farmers use water stored to irrigate their land.
So far, 50 pools have been built while 100 more ponds.
Ashok Kumar, a farmer from Chogtali Village Block Rajgarh, which is used to get Rs 80,000 per season from eight Bighas of Land because it has lost irrigation facilities and heavy dependence on the rain used to influence plant production.
After finding that feeding a family of six people had become a challenge because of the return of less than the land, he decided to file a water pool scheme.
With financial assistance from the Rajgarh Block Development Office, he built a pool of water on his land and today he produced around RS 3.5 Lakh to 4 lakh per season.
He said that small ideas had a pool to store water for irrigation purposes had changed his life for the better.
Likewise, Sandeep Kumar from Serjgaas Village who has a family of eight members find it difficult to make both ends meet with him only get Rs 60,000 per season from the six pawns of land.
He also built a pool of water to end his dependence on the rain and now produce Rs 3 lakh every year.
Block Development Officer Arvind Singh Guleria said that before starting this campaign, agriculture mostly rainfed and farmers often had to face plant failures, while garlic production, tomatoes, nuts (commercial crops) -2-3 kuintals (garlic) per pigar – Being under their potential.
He said that after the construction of individual farming ponds (Johar) of commercial crops production had improved manifolds, namely 10-12 quintals per bigha for garlic, next to other commercial plants.
He said that in addition to economic impact, this campaign also has the impact of social and environmental conservation, because many BPL and SC families have benefited in this scheme.
Ecologically, this farm pond helps in water conservation, refill groundwater and soil conservation.
He said that 50 such farm pools had been developed under this campaign and 100 applications as it had been received by the Rajgarh block office.
He said that they had set a 200-pool target like that in the Rajgarh block, because farmers were interested in this campaign.