Phad
:
Phad irrigation is one of the traditional forms of irrigation
practiced in the Khandesh region of
Maharashtra
, particularly prominent in Dhule and Nashik districts, across the Panzara and Azim rivers in the Tapi river basin.
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Ahar Pyne :
Ahar-Pyne is a traditional flood
water harvesting system, indigenous to south
Bihar
, where an Ahar resembled a rectangular catchment basin with embankments on three
sides. Pynes are channels constructed to divert the water flowing through hilly
rivers into the Ahars.
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Katas : Katas are
community-based traditional water harvesting structures,
which were the main source of irrigation in the ancient tribal kingdom of the Gonds
(now in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh).
The Gond rulers,
who ruled the region till 1947,
had evolved an effective social and administrative system to sustain these systems
for agricultural purposes.
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