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Drought mitigation
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strategies || Long-term strategies ||
Short term strategies
- Immediate livelihood opportunities for farm women
- Arrangement of drinking water by repair of handpumps and providing mobile tankers.
- Establishing food grain, fodder and seeds
- Facilitating supply of vaccines/medicines for livestock, mobile vans in distant regions.
- Animal Camps/ ‘Goshalas’ for abandoned and stray milch cattle and animals
- Access to cooked food as a supplement and providing vitamins for pregnant, lactating and
diseased women.
Long term strategies
Formation of women’s
groups and their capacity building for
- Low cost use of efficient water systems like sprinklers/ drip irrigation systems
- Land development by farm bunding, against the slope ploughing and other improved soil
and water conservation practices.
- Construction of roof top water harvesting structures, anicuts,check dams and other water
harvesting structures.
- Rejuvenation of traditional water conservation practices i.e. Naadis, Johads, Tankas and
Beris.
- Increase of Dairy cooperatives for value addition and marketing of milk products for
increased farm income
- Animal husbandry management and disease coping strategies of milch cattle for better
yields.
Facilitate the reduction
of the dependence of women on agriculture by the
- Development of wool, stone and other rural industries for providing other opportunities
of livelihood.
- Development of the tourism industry and local crafts in rural areas most affected by
drought.
- Promotion of non-farm activities like sericulture, epiculture and mushroom cultivation.
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Rajasthan -
Drought Status
