MAJOR PROGRAMMES OF THE DEPARTMENT

To confront the gargantuan task related to land and water resources depletion, the Department has taken up various conservation measures and developmental programmes in arable and non-arable land through the following schemes: -

Double Benefits - Growing Horticultural crops for maximum returns and soil and water conservation

A. State Plan Schemes

(1) Soil & Water Conservation in General Areas.
(2) Jhum Control Programme.
(3) Improved Jhum/ Bun Cultivation Scheme.
(4) Watershed Management Programme.

B. Centrally Sponsored Schemes

(1) Integrated Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP).
(2) Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP).
(3) Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP).
(4) Rashtriya Krishi Vigyan Yojna (RKVY) with the State Agriculture Department as Nodal Department.

C. Special Central Assistance to State Plan

Watershed Development Project in Shifting Cultivation Areas (WDPSCA)

D. NABARD Loan

Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)

E. Centrally Sponsored Programme of Soil Conservation for enhancing the productivity of degraded lands in the catchment of River Kopili in Jaintia Hills District under Macro-Management Mode of Agriculture Department, Meghalaya.

F. Cherrapunji Ecological Project- Restoration of Degraded Lands Under Sohra Plateau

Breaking the slope by terracing to reduce surface runoff and prevent soil loss assuring good returns

Afforestation - The turning point to help nature recoup