IMPORTANCE OF AQUA-TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN IFS MODULE IN WATER MONITORING, PRODUCTIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
2012
Water is one of the integral and key inputs of natural resources, endowed in India with a rich and vast bio-diversity. The quantity of water in the earth is fixed; only the form is changing time to time through different ways and means, amounting to about 1,384 million km 3 , while, in India it is about 400 mham, should be conserved and used in a sustainable manner for its generations. Through project sources, suitable IFS (Integrated Farming System) model was developed utilizing aqua-terrestrial ecosystem through some need-based renovation programmes at farmer’s level with the aim of developing multi-purpose production system in the regions. It created and facilitated for conserving runoff water during wet months, utilized properly through integration of “rice-cum-fish culture-cum-vegetables” for enhancing total productivity and livelihood development of rural farming community as well. In lands, plants (especially cocoanut on bunds or boarders), which produces from 4-5th year onwards, other trees plantation developed, especially on boarder areas, which will be valuable approximately after 25-30 years, and over all, utilized water of watershed basins as live-saving irrigation to adjacent arable crops done suitably and precisely. This system approach was economically viable, even to the resource-poor fish-farm families, exhibited >2.5 folds and it gained at its viable level of the regions. However, it needs more study and developing awareness for its sustainability.
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