Impact Assessment of Indigenous Field-Level Water Storage Structure (Diggi) on Agriculture in the Great Indian Desert Pratap Chandra Moharana (
[email protected] ) Central Arid Zone Research Institute https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6625-5784 R.K. Goyal Central Arid Zone Research Institute Deepesh Machiwal Central Arid Zone Research Institute C.B. Pandey Central Arid Zone Research Institute Research Article Keywords: Diggi, Micro-farm water storage structures, Indigenous system, Irrigated agriculture, Remote sensing and geographic information system, western Rajasthan Posted Date: August 3rd, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-750834/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Impact Assessment of Indigenous Field-Level Water Storage Structure (Diggi) on Agriculture in the Great Indian Desert P.C. Moharana1, R.K. Goyal, Deepesh Machiwal, C.B. Pandey Division of Natural Resources, ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur-342003, Rajasthan, India 1Corresponding Author:
[email protected] ABSTRACT In the arid region of Rajasthan, India, it is very often a challenge to store rain/surface water for year- round use by human and livestock. The inhabitants of this desert area have developed several water storage structures, which they used to construct based on their indigenous knowledge of local terrain conditions. Recently, farmers living in the lower command areas of Indira Gandhi canal have constructed micro-farm water storage structures, called diggi, in their cropland. They store allocated canal water in diggi to timely utilize it as per irrigation requirements, and thus, done away with problems of deficit and untimely canal water supply.