Activities within the grant and expected impact:
The project is towards demonstrating (on a pilot scale) water management for irrigation through construction of one diversion weir and nine ring wells that can provide irrigation to 115 households with the potential to irrigate about 40 hectares (ha), covering four villages, namely Amaluma, Dhansiripar, Doyapur and Ganeshnagar in Dhansiripar block. In all the four villages, the main source of cash income is backyard piggery. However, due to a variety of constraints such as gap in knowledge about rearing and breeding sows, poor feeding practices, lack of capital for buying supplementary feeds, lack of extension services, prevalence of pig diseases, etc, pig production remains traditional. The project would entail introducing better care and management of pigs and breeding sows with 40 households. Briefly, the objectives of the project are:

	Exploring potential of surface water and ground water resources for expansion and optimisation of irrigation leading to enhanced productivity from agriculture and horticulture(ii) Enhancing income through promoting better care and management of pigs
	Developing participatory irrigation management concepts and enhancing farmers’ capacity on irrigation. The key components are:
	Construction of diversion weir Construction of ring wells and vegetable promotion Piggery promotion