Aruni-Dhaumya to Abhijit-Motilal River Ploughing and Water-Harvesting Innovative Experiments

पृथिव्याम् त्रीणि रत्नानि जलम् अन्नम् सुभाषितम् - Prithivyam Trini Ratnani Jalam Annam Subhashitam says, Water is a Precious Jewel stored in rock, In Hindi Ratan and needs to be preserved. Story of Aruni a disciple and Dhaumya Rushi as a Mentor creates Moral in India. Ground water can be conserved through river ploughing , the present president of Shahada Taluka Education Society and Co-op Education Society Limited said Mr. Tatya So. Motilal Patil first proposed the idea of a novel experiment called river ploughing (Nadi nangarti) in 2002. This successful experiment was done in the Gomai riverbed, and gradually it was followed in the surrounding area, i.e. in the adjacent areas of Shahada taluka. The experiment was successfully implemented. As the water level is getting deeper day by day, farmers are implementing new experiments to increase it. Mr. Tatya So. Motilal Patil and his colleagues successfully conducted the experiment of river ploughing in a river adjacent to four-five villages on the banks of the Gomai river. Due to this, the tributaries adjacent to the Tapi river have also dried up. And due to this, many tubewells , borewells , wells near the river banks were closed due to lack of river water. Since there was a hard layer like stone in the drain, water did not seep through, so the tubewells , borewells , wells dried up. They did not live long. After thinking about this issue for a long time, our Honorable President Shri. Motilal Tatya Patil had realized that if the river is ploughed before the rains , it will rain and water will seep into the river. According to his plan, he invited the people living on the banks of the Gomai river near Dambarkheda for this public welfare experiment. First, this experiment , river ploughing i.e. river nagrati , was done in the Gomai river near Dambarkheda village in Shahada taluka. And hence this experiment came to be known as the Dambarkheda pattern . Villagers from 25-30 villages on the banks of the river took advantage of this experiment i.e. river ploughing. The wells , borewells and dry wells were revived i.e. the wells got water. That is, the groundwater level increased which was dead for the last many years (8-10 years) , i.e. there was no water in the water reservoirs , there was a dry void. Due to the increase in water storage in the ground, the wells and wells got water, which ultimately resulted in an increase in crop production. Shri. Abhijit Patil, President, APMC, Shahada has continued these experiments for farmers, in Addition he is added the river Ploughing and making small Check dams on small rivers.