Preventive
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Rainwater harvesting for life-saving irrigation. • Perform off-season ploughing to conserve moisture and to facilitate early sowing • Follow partial mechanization to ensure for timeliness in operation • Adopt intercropping/ mixed-cropping/integrated farming system in recurrent drought prone areas • Select low water requiring crops and cropping systems matching the length of the growing season • Selection of low water and short duration variety • Plough and sow the crops across the slope in sloppy area • Community nursery for rice |