khadeen
- In the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, farmers have harvested the limited rainwater with an indigenous technique called ‘khadeen’ that has worked for thousands of years and helped them irrigate their fields.
- The word khadeen is believed to have originated from ‘khadd’ in Sanskrit which means ‘a depression in the land’.
- Khadeens are a traditional rainwater harvesting and agricultural system, predominantly found in the arid regions of Rajasthan, India. They are an ingenious method of conserving water in areas with scarce ....
