Soil & Water Conservation

DISHA intends to raise awareness and increase people’s participation in the protection and development management of natural resources. For that, we take measures with the aim to:

1. Enabling the local communities to conserve and manage their land, water and agriculture production in a sustainable manner as a means of providing sustainable livelihood opportunities.
2. Improving the availability of water resources, soil fertility and productivity of agricultural land for attaining sustainable livelihoods by restoration, reclamation and management of natural resources.
3. Encourage sustainable agricultural practices among small and marginal farmers to improve soil and plant health thereby maintaining ecological balance.
4. Building and strengthening the capacities of peoples groups, SHGs and federation  on self managed and self sustaining basis towards protection and management of natural resources
5. Improve the land and water situation in the villages through application of appropriate soil and water conservation, harvesting structures and other methods.
6. Improvement in agriculture through adoption of sustainable agricultural practices like composting and suitable land and water management methods.
7. Assessment of availability of natural resources, utilization pattern by families and related issues in the target villages for developing a Natural Resources Data base(NRD)
8. Increase the vegetative cover by planting forest and horticultural plants.

Some Measures to improve water Conditions are followed: Farm pond, Renovation of ponds, Irrigation open wells with shutter modification, Drinking water open wells, stone lining and parapet wall construction, Roof water harvesting(RWH), Roof water harvesting Campaign.