The APFMGS project funding stopped in 2009. In 2012, IWMI sent two students to 49 of the better developed HUNs to check on how many of the APFAMGS practices were still being used.
Their overall impression was that “most had been abandoned by the farmers except in two HUNs in Chittoor and one in Kurnool” (see chart).
Verma et al., (2012,p. 9) concluded that eulogies of the APFMGS project “seem to be premature and overly optimistic… and that in the absence of an external authority, GMCs and HUNs lose their
legitimacy, leading to a breakdown of trust and legitimacy.”