Integrated Watershed Development
BUNGA
Dist.: Ambala; State: Haryana, INDIA
� Rainfall: 1100 mm
� Parent Rocks: Sand stone; Conglomerates
� Parent materials: Alluvial deposits
� Soil texture: sandy loam (surface soil); Loam (lower layers)
Details of water storage reservoirs at Village Bunga
� Year of construction:  1984
� Forest catchment:  155 ha;
� Dam Height:  16 m
� Storage capacity:  59.6 ha-m
� Submergence area:  11 ha.
� Command area:  243 ha
� Total cost:  Rs.35.46 lakhs
Treatments
� 1400 nos. of small earthen check dams and 4 big  Gabion structures in 46 ha catchment area
Vegetative measures
� More  than 50,000 plants of Khair; (Acacia catechue)
� 15,400 Kikar (A. nilotica)
� 5,000 Bamboo (Bambusa arundinacea)
� 1000 Soap nut (Sapindus detergens)
� 1000 Subabul (Leucaena leucocephala)
� 0.2 million slips of Bhabbar grass (Eulaliopsis binata)
Impact
1. Two irrigations (7.5 cm) to wheat in 243 ha command area.
2. Area under wheat increased from 26 to 57%; Yield increased up to 183%.
3. Production of food grains increased by 146%; cash crop by 410%; Fodder by 267%; Pulses by 77%; Oilseeds 59%;
4. Gross value from agriculture increased from Rs.6,309 to Rs.14,136 per ha at 1991-92 price with a growth rate of 9.4 % per annum.
5. Annual milk production increased from 231 thousand liters to 723 thousand liters from 1983-84 to 1991-92.
6. Per capita energy consumption increased from 3.23 kg/day to 4.11 kg/day.
7. Average annual income (gross) of the whole village from all the sources increased by 86 % in 1991-92.
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