Most of the agriculture in India is highly dependent on the reliability of monsoons and climate change is expected to profoundly change it. The number of consecutive dry-days and droughts have been increasing in large swathes of India in the past century and are expected to keep increasing. Water use is increasing across agricultural, industrial, and domestic sectors, drying up our rivers and depleting groundwater in many parts. Agriculture being the largest user of water has to get its act together by better water budgeting if it has to thrive in the changing world.
Better World Foundation is working in the field of watershed management in various regions to empower farmers to understand and plant their water resources. We incorporate scientific hydrologic and hydrogeologic studies to understand which are the best ares for recharge and in which areas there is scope for more pro-poor sustainable groundwater extraction. We build the capacity of communities to monitor their rainfall and groundwater levels which in turn is being used to prepare water budgets.
All of BWF’s agricultural interventions are done with climate resilience in mind visible through the usage of solar powered pumps, drip irrigation as well as the installation of solar powered cold storage units to ensure renewable sources of energy are fully utilized minimizing the carbon footprint. With the world trying to adapt to the climate smart agricultural model which is duly recognised by various states, it is imperative to have the floor set which would play a vital role in bringing about improvements in production and make a shift to resilient agriculture which would ultimately usher in income enhancement for the beneficiaries.
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