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Water Management through alignment of long channel
	Shri Morubhai Vasava has dug a 2 kms. of long water channel along the contour to irrigate his field on the hill. A small reservoir has been prepared at the entrance of the field.
: 2224 | : Morubhai Sojiyabhai Vasava | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Water Management
	A farmer had successfully grown the fruit orchard of pome-granate (Punica granatum) and custard-apple (Annona squamosa) using trench as water channel with limited quantity of water.
: 1067 | : Ramnikbhai Kalariya, | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Reclamation of soil by drainage
	Farmers dig deep drainage channels around the salt affected fields, so that the rain water drains the field in to these channels.
: 1490 | : Jadav Ramabhai Keshabhai | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Farm Implement: A Valve for Water Lifting
	An American company is pursuing trial of this value to explore its utility there. Who knows, Narendrabhai may get export orders at the behest of SRISTI, if the value proves economical and successful in US.:Ed
: 880 | : Luhar Narendrabhai Hiralal | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Drip irrigation for water melon
	The water melon crop requires sufficient soil moisture. During shortage of water holes are made at the bottom of a fully matured fruit to allow the inside water to ooze out. The fruit is then placed over the root portion of the plant. This method of drip irrigation not only saves the crop from dryin
: 1052 | : P R Subramanian | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Circular pits to save water consumption in Banana plantation
	Generally the farmers plant about 850 - 900 suckers of banana in square or rectangular beds. In this farm, circular pits with a circumference of 4½ feet and a depth of three feet are dug and seven to eight suckers are planted on the periphery of every pit. Irrigation is given to the pits through th
: 1854 | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Harvesting of the rain water
	Farmers prepare the field bunds with the help of sand, clay and stones surrounding the entire salt affected field. They steer the monsoon streams toward that field by preparing extra lateral canal in the adjacent elevated area. However, this adjoining area must be free from salt crust. Harvested rai
: 1628 | : Dahyabhai Ramsangbhai Rabari | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Contemporary Innovation in Traditional Water Harvesting
	SettingTakhuva is an arid village situated near Rajasthan border in Banaskantha district of Gujarat. Till five years ago, water used to be extracted from virdas similar to those in the Banni area of Gujarat (see Honey Bee Vol 5(2):5 and 5 (3):7). These virdas were dug at the bottom of a tank during
: 1537 | : written by Babubhai Rajpurohit, Poornimabhai Prajapati, Srinivas Chokkakula | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Virda: A Ingenious Method of Rain Water Harvesting
	‘Virdas’ are rain water harvesting wells found in Kutch. (For a full description, see Honey Bee Vol 5 No2). Here we put forward some hypotheses on how the ‘virda’ gets charged with fresh water. We had focussed our study in the same village Dhordo described in the previous issue. Dhordo villa
: 11586 | : written by Srinivas Chokkakula and Sunil R Patel | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

Water and soil from forest for farms
	The forest cover in Gujarat is declining. Due to this, water from hills flow down with tremendous speed and washes away with it the top fertile layer of soil. Maheshbhai Lakhabhai Damor of Kaliyakua village in Meghraj Taluka has made a unique step like canal and has diverted the flow of water from t
: 3777 | : Maheshbhai Lakhabhai Damor, | : Water Conservations | : Honey Bee Practices

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