Ecological Regions Explore the ecological diversity of India - from the dry cold deserts of Ladakh to the dry, hot desert of Rajasthan; from the sub-temperate mountains of the Nilgiris to the alluvial mon... |
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The Western Himalayas The Himalayan mountains bind India in the north by one continuous chain of gigantic peaks. The western half, which stretches from the Kashmir valley to the hills of Uttarancha... |
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TRADITIONAL Water has been harvested in India since antiquity, with our ancestors perfecting the art of water management. Many water harvesting structures and water conveyance systems specific to the eco-regions and... |
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The Eastern Himalayas The Indian portion of the eastern Himalayan region consists of the states of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, and the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. Unfortunately, there is ... |
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NORTH-EASTERN HIMALAYA Zabo The zabo (the word means 'impounding run-off') system is practiced ...... |
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EASTERN HIMALAYA Apatani This is a wet rice cultivation cum fish farming system practiced in elevated ...... |
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WESTERN HIMALAYA P. R. Mishra Sukhomajri, Haryana Parasu Ram Mishra Parasu Ram Mishra, ...... |
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... In the early 1980s , the people of Sukhomajri village in Shivalik range of the Himalaya in Haryana's Ambala district earned nation-wide acclaim for the way in which ...... |
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Any land anywhere can be used to harvest rainwater The fundamental reason: extend the fruits of the monsoon The basic principle: Catch water where it falls TRADITIONAL Indigenous systems MODERN Contempo... |
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The Deccan Plateau constitutes the whole of the south Indian tableland - the elevated region lying east of the Western Ghats. The plateau occupies large parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka and a ... |
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