TaraGRAM ....
" Empowering people
through land and water" |
India
has nearly 328 million hectares (mha.) of land out of which
approximately 144 mha is under  agriculture and 75 mha under recorded
forests and over 100 mha under the category of wasteland. We are endowed with a
good rainfall, plenty of sunshine and probably the largest pool of agricultural
scientists in the world. Yet our
food production hovering around 180 million tons (Mt.)
per year is hardly sufficient for our rapidly growing population.
 On the firewood and fodder
front, the situation is grim. The reason for the low productivity of land is mismanagement of our soil and
water. The forests are being depleted due to excessive biotic pressures and inadequate
moisture conservation measures.
One
fourth of India's land area, which falls, under the
category of wasteland cannot be economically harnessed for the
production of agricultural crops. But these wasted lands have tremendous
potential for
meeting the ever-increasing demand for fodder, fuel wood and small timber provided
appropriate soil
and moisture
conservation measures are
adopted. Added to the land management problems, there is
acute scarcity of safe drinking water in 80-95% of
villages in the country, thus affecting the quality of life.
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Realising
the shortcomings, Development Alternatives, Bundelkhand
Group has taken up projects dealing with  watershed conservation and development, wasteland
development and drinking water supply and
sanitation, thus, attempting to influence
and improve the quality of environment as well as
life. |
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