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Andhra Pradesh Farmer Managed Groundwater Systems Project

25 November 2011, Madanapalle, India - A Groundwater Systems Project meeting with local farmers on Participatory Hydrological Monitoring (PHM). The PHM portion of the project has been a strategy adopted to transform individual groundwater users to water resource literates. Based on the knowledge, the farmers have started appreciating the causes leading to groundwater level changes, rainfall-recharge relationship, pumping capacity of bore wells and water requirements for different types of crops.

FAO Project: GCP/IND/181/GFF - Reversing Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty through Adaptation to Climate Change in Drought Stricken Areas in South India: A Hydrological Unit Pilot Project Approach - MSP. The Goal of the project: Enabling the resource poor farming communities to practice sustainable land and water management for optimizing livelihoods and improving food and income security in the Deccan plateau region of southern India; The specific objective: Capacity building of farmers groups, farmers networks, farmers federation, participating NGOs and other development actors in Sustainable land and eco-system management for improved livelihoods.

11/25/2011

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