Dr. Javed Rizvi, Regional Director, and Dr. Rajendra Choudhary, Senior Liaison & Monitoring Officer, South Asia Programme, ICRAF, New Delhi visited the Parasai-Sindh watershed and interacted with the farmers.  They observed the interventions taken up in watershed and discussed the impact of the measures with the accompanying farmers. The ICRAF team was overwhelmed after seeing the surface water in ephemeral drains in about 2.0 km length, large scale adoption of teak based agroforestry (more than 200 acre) on field boundaries and homestead agroforestry in majority of the households The team has interactions with community and realized that virtually there is no impact of deficit rainfall (31% less than long term average rainfall) on agricultural activities. More than 90% area of the watershed is cultivated. Villagers opined that hardly 40% area will be cultivated outside watershed during rabi 2014-15 due to deficit rainfall. Read more