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The Government of India, the State Governments of Karnataka and Odisha, and the World Bank have signed a $115 million for the REWARD Project.
About REWARD Project
- REWARD stands for Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development.
Credit: Orissa Post - The project aims to help national and state institutions adopt improved watershed management practices to help increase farmers’ resilience to climate change, promote higher productivity and better incomes.
- REWARD is being implemented in three to four Indian States.
- It is proposed as a 6 years Project.
Objectives of the REWARD Project
- The outcomes are prevention of soil run-off, regeneration of natural vegetation, rainwater harvesting, and recharging of the groundwater table.
- This enables multi-cropping and the introduction of diverse agro-based activities, which help to provide sustainable livelihoods to the people residing in the watershed area.
- This programme will further advance this progress by developing and applying comprehensive spatial data and technologies, decision support tools, and knowledge exchanges.
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