CONTENTS Foreword vii Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 Surjit Singh 1 Agriculture in Rainfed Areas 2 Shaping Rajasthan's Agricultural Future 31 M.S. Swaminathan 3 Rise and Decline of Rainfed Agriculture 45 Ramesh Chand, L.M. Pandey and Sanjeev Garg 4 Rainfed Agriculture: Need for Rainbow Revolution 53 S.M. Jharwal 5 Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka 67 R.S. Deshpande and M. Indira 6 Agriculture in Rainfed Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra 96 J. Venkateswarlu 2 Conserving Land and Water 7 Conservation of Natural Resources and their Efficient Use for Sustainable Development in Asia 121 Suhas P. Wani, T. K. Sreedevi, Yin Dixin, Thawilkal Wangkahart and N.V. Thang 8 Conserving Land and Water in the Rainfed Regions of India : Challenges and Coping Strategies 146 Katar Singh 9 Millennium Development Goals and Watershed Development Programme in Semi-Arid Areas in Andhra Pradesh 167 V. Ratna Reddy and M. Gopinath Reddy 10 Irrigation Tanks in Chhattisgarh: Traditional Technology for Sustaining Rainfed Agriculture 200 Dinesh K. Marothia, Sushil Pandey and Vijay K. Choudhary 11 Conserving Land and Water on Watershed Basis in Rainfed Regions 223 M. A. Khan 3 Natural Resources and Livelihood Options 12 The Changing Resource Use Dynamics in Arid Lands : Viewed through Water and Livestock Lens 239 N.S. Jodha 13 Performance of Livestock Production System in India : Where Rainfed Region Stands? 254 Anjani Kumar and Dhiraj K. Singh 14 Livelihood Options in Non-Farm Sector in Dryland Areas 281 Ajit Kumar Singh 15 Livelihoods in Rainfed Regions 294 Pradeep Bhargava Contributors 318 Index 320