Doubling farmers' income through land-shaping technologies in coastal-salt affected areas

Abstract

Land-shaping technologies are the suitable and economically viable options for sustainable land and water management in coastal salt affected areas in India. The goal of doubling farmers’ income can be realized through implementation of such technologies. However, major constraints for adoption of land-shaping techniques are marginal-land holdings that too divided into several parcels, high initial investment, and presence of acid sulphate soils near surface or at shallow depth at places. There is a need to converge on-going schemes to mobilize financial resources towards large-scale implementation of these technologies to farmers’ field for socially inclusive agricultural growth in the marginal areas.