Using wastewater for agriculture
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Resource ID
1867
Access
Open
Contributed by
Maheshi Adams
Photo Credit/Author/Presenter
Chhandak Pradhan
Other
Agriculture, Assignment, Calcutta, India, International Water Management Institute, Irrigation, Kolkata, NGO, Water, farming
Date
12
Country
India
Summary
Basudev Mondal irrigates a farm near the busy EM Bypass road of Calcutta, India growing brinjal or egg plant. He charges the owner of the land INR 50 for his labour. The cost of the water pump is INR 250.
Located adjacent to a landfill and the East Kolkata Wetland, which processes raw sewage into usable water using fish farms, the area produces 150 tonnes of vegetables. The paddy fields in the East Kolkata Wetland (many of which draws irrigation water from the fisheries) produce 15,000 Metric Tonnes of additional paddy per annum.
INR 1 = $ 55