Watershed

ongoing project

Completed project

Key Interventions

Watershed Development

Watershed development is a principal strategy to promote agriculture in rain-fed and semi-arid areas. By capturing scarce water resources and improving the management of soil and vegetation; watershed development has the potential to create conditions conducive to higher agricultural productivity while conserving natural resources. LAVS has been associated with watershed development activities with the support of NABARD and OTELP Project in Koraput District of Odisha.

Plantation:

Deforestation is now a major concern as it adversely affects environment and livelihoods of forest dependent communities. Besides protecting forests, LAVS emphasized plantation of horti-silvi cultural plants, orchard crops and medicinal plants in watershed areas by supplying of saplings of locally viable fruit species.

Land & Water Management:

The livelihood basket of the poor is partly filled by wage income, subsistence agriculture and forest. Thus effort has been made during the year to invest upon these resources which not only provide immediate wage employment but also improve these resources as productive assets resulting in improved income in the long run along with ecological balance. During programme interventions, various mechanical measures like stone Bonds, staggered trenches, continuous trenches and water absorption trenches were constructed to moderate the run off velocity and prevent soil loss. The programme also adopted interventions to treat the first and second order streams through various activities like Retaining wall, Gully control structures etc.