Rainwater harvesting for sustainable agriculture
- Kurukshetra: A Journal on Rural Development
- 71(8), Jun, 2023: p.46-50
Human demand for water has increased almost eightfold in the last 100 years. The world contains and estimated 1,400 million cubic kilometers of water, but only 0.003 per cent of this vast among could be used for drinking, hygiene agriculture and industry. Monsoon rains assume great significance in Indian agriculture, as almost 60 per cent of the sown area is still rainfed. – Reproduced