Changed climate in terms of rainfall distribution and reduced rainy days, lower SOC / WHC besides Drylands are thirsty, emphasis is required for conservation of rainwater efficiently. Concerted effort of NARS, although developed several technologies, their applicability / adoption is limited as they are slow moving. Hence, there is a necessity for thinking next generation technologies having technological and practical adaptive significance.
As rightly pointed out, even though our NARS have developed sufficient technologies, Implementation is the lacuna. Implementing the water conservation technologies are very difficult for the extension workers/ department officials. The problem is that adoption is linked with many socio, economic, cultural factors etc and mainly any technology to be adopted it should be profitable. Considering the high risk in rainfed farming, farmers may not be interested in such activities. Hence it is better to take a micro / macro watershed and implement all the technological interventions holistically, then there is a possibility of converting the dryland into protectively irrigated lands