The authors considered that managing rainwater and soil moisture more effectively, and using supplemental and small-scale irrigation, held the key to helping the greatest number of poor people. It called for a new era of water investments and policies for upgrading rainfed agriculture that would go beyond controlling field-level soil and water to bring new freshwater sources through better local management of rainfall and runoff. The chapters in this book provide important aspects relating to rainfed agriculture in India, including concepts and characterists, type of rainfed farming systoms, climate risks, water availability, water shed management, an soon. The issues raised in the book would go a long way to put the much-neglected agriculture.
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