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The Adaptation Fund was established to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are parties to the Kyoto Protocol and are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

Titre : Climate Smart Agricultural Water Management in Man and Khatav Taluka of Satara, Maharashtra, India

Pays : Inde

Date : 2023
Durée : 3 ans

Présentation
The proposed project aims to develop and implement new technologies for agricultural adaptation to climate change for water and food security. The new scientific findings and technological innovations will be implemented and tested for the driest and most vulnerable Talukas of Satara district Maharashtra, Man and Khatav. A significant fraction of the population in this region live below the poverty line and are highly vulnerable. A substantial proportion of the male population from these regions have migrated to nearby cities Mumbai and Pune, making the population dominated by women, aged people and children, which has further increased the vulnerability over the last decade.

The broad goal is to bring sustainability to agricultural water management through short-term irrigation advisory and long-term crop switching. The irrigation advisories will merge IOT/ IOE systems with satellite observations, hyper-resolution modeling, and weather and sub-seasonal forecasts. The primary objective is to develop out of the box approaches to make the agricultural advisories accessible by the farmers for their own farms, irrespective of the installation of sensors on that specific farm. We plan to cover a minimum of 5 villages in the two talukas. We envisage a minimum of 10% water saving by introducing cost-effective new technology. The long-term crop switching will ensure the satisfaction of multiple conflicting objectives of maximizing food production, such interventions. The project will add significant value to the existing Laxmanrao Inamdar Lift Irrigation scheme (worth Rs 247 crore) sanctioned under the PMKSY (Per drop more crop) for the drought-prone Man Khatav taluka with the innovative application of new technologies. The developed technology can be upscales to 27,000 hectare, which the irrigation scheme is covering.

Implementing Entity : National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development NABARD
Executing Entity : Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay, India

Financement  : 2.56 Million USD

Adaptation Fund