Present climatic scenario urges to monitor and evaluate the impact of watershed development and soil conservation programmes which are multi-sectoral complexity. Integrated Watershed Management Programmesupports the farmers in intensifying their agricultural production that enables them to enhance their employment and income. The present study was based on comparison of the household in the watershed area (treatment) and non-watershed area (control) in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. Key indicators of social impacts are selected on the basis of employment generation by the programmes and which in turn affected migration of the community as well. To assess the impact, the difference-in-differences method was applied to compare the changes in outcomes over time between the treatment group and the control group. Labour utilization percentage was worked out as 72.63 per cent for treatment group and 49.40 per cent for control group. A decline was noticed in all categories of farmers in the permanent migration as compared to seasonal migration. The data also suggests that the seasonal as well as permanent migration of skilled labor in all categories of farmers were more reduced as against to the unskilled labor in the study area.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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