Praful Kumar Nayak farms 25 acres of his own land at Badamada village in Kosagumuda block of Nabarangpur. In 2012, he installed four borewells that can potentially irrigate his entire holding. It was done under a state government scheme requiring a minimum of four farmers to come together for drilling a cluster of four borewells, each covering five acres. In this case, Nayak got the wells installed under his own name and those of his mother, maternal uncle and grandfather. The scheme entailed the individual...
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