3.4 Overall People’s Participation in watershed development programmes
The data in Table 5 shows that the overall extent of participation by stakeholder farmers in NABARD
Supported Holistic Watershed Development Programmes (NSHWDP) in the six distressed districts of Vidarbha
region of Maharashtra was exhibited moderate level as calculated pooled PPI value 65.5 per cent. It was also revealed that moderate level of participation was exhibited by farmers in planning stage (63.7%) as well as
implementation stage (57.7%) little less than planning stage, whereas, high level (75.1%) of participation was
exhibited by farmers in maintenance stage of watershed clusters in the region. It shows that the farmers of
Vidarbha region were contributed more in maintenance of natural resources conservation structures or
interventions implemented during watershed development programme.