Karnataka, India - Contour cultivation and Vetiver key lines. Their impact in a drought year (1987).
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During the 1980s and early 90s the World Bank and its soil conservation team led by John Greenfield (agronomist par excellence) in New Delhi, working in partnership with Indian colleagues in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu in support of watershed development, put a good deal of emphasis on insitu moisture conservation through contour cultivation and vetiver grass hedgerows, the latter as key lines and protection against extreme rainfall events. The 1987 monsoon season (Kharif) was a failure and for many farmers a drought. Those, as shown in this video, who cultivated on the contour were spared crop losses. It is a lesson that should be noted by all those farmers who are effected by potential drought. Contour cultivation is a just a change in management and costs nothing. It is surprising how many farmers still do not follow the practice of contour cultivation. With climate change, crop survival will benefit on it, along with all the other benefits.
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