RAINFED AREA DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME (RADP)
VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF
Maddelacheruvupalli of Valmikipuram
Mandal of
Madanapalle Sub Division for the year
2011-2012
Assistant Director of Agriculture
[Soil Conservation] Madanapalle
Chittoor District
The Valmikipuram mandal is located Western side of district head
quarters. The Mandal covers an extent of 184.57.Sq Mts. The
Normal rainfall of the Mandal is 855.mm. Kalikiri Mandal on the East
and Kalakada and Gurramkonda by North. The Nimmanapalli Mandal
on the South side and West by Madanapalle and Kurabalakota
Mandals
The climate of the mandal is dry and hot.
The Valmikipuram mandal consists of 17 Revenue villages and 120
Hamllets with a population of 44,785 as per the 2001 census and 16
Gram panchayats in the mandal. The major portion of the Mandal is
covered by Red soils and Sandy soils.
There is one river flowing in the mandal
namely BAHUDA passes through Chintaparthy. There are a number
of small hilly streams flowing in the Mandal.
The agriculture is mainly depending on rains and irrigation under
tanks and bore wells. Farmers normally raise paddy, groundnut and
vegetables through this irrigation facility.
Farmers usually grow Groundnut, Red gram, millets and cereals with
the support of rainwater. The mandal is well known for Horticulture
crops.
There are 14 Factories in the Mandal which
contribute for the economic development of the Mandal for example
granite industry, Mango pulp and etc.,
A BRIEF NOTE ON THE MADDELACHERUVU PALLI VILLAGE
UNDER RAINFED AREA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
The Rainfed Area Development Programme for rainfed areas is
being implemented in twelve villages in Chittoor district. Out of
which Maddelacheruvu Palli is one among them. The
Maddelacheruvu Palli village is one of the backward villages in
Chittoor district with no river courses and canal systems. This village
is located 100 Kms from the District Head Quarter and 35 Kms from
Madanapalle sub-division which is located on bus route of
Madanapalle to Tirupati.
The total area proposed under RADP is Ha. The soils are red
sandy looms with 4 to 6% slope. The annual rainfall of this village
is 746.mm. Most of the arable lands are dry lands depending on
rainfall. Due to erratic rainfall the village is often affected by drought
conditions. Due to high percentage of slope in dry lands, the soils
are mostly affected to soil erosion and this loosing the valuable top
soil which results low yield of dry land crops. The major common
crops that are being cultivated in this village are Groundnut and
Tomato. In severe drought conditions it is a problem to meet the
livelihood for the people in the village and also fodder for the cattle.
To improve the economic conditions of the people of the village and
also conserve the soil and moisture conditions in the village and to
make self sufficiency in all respects i.e., employment generation
throughout the year food production, fodder and pasture
development by utilizing all the nature resources available in the
village are being implemented to improve the RADP in all aspects.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF THE VILLAGE UNDER RAINFED
AREA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
The village selected is predominantly rainfed farming area.
The major portion of the food production comes from dry lands
only.
These dry lands are subjected to vagrancies of monsoon
coupled with low productivity and exposed for centuries for
periodic droughts soil erosion and uncertain crop yields.
Crop production in these areas is greatly affected by un even
erratic distribution of rainfall.
High rainfall intensities have accelerated soil erosion with little
scope for infiltration of rainwater in to soil as the fields are not
protected with moisture conservation measures. The fertile
top soil is being eroded with rainwater leaving the soils with
little or no soil depth for sufficient plant growth.
The irrigation tanks are being silted up with silt carried by
runoff water, thus reducing the storage capacity of the tanks
as the catchment areas of the tanks are not treated with soil
conservation measures.
There is no forest in the village area the hillocks have no
vegetative cover and they are barren, hot climate prevails
during summer season.
DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL:
The farmers of this village area are mostly small and marginal, but
they are deceptive of latest dry land technology. Due to their poor
economic conditions they are not in a position to implement the
scientific rainfed farming practices to obtain sustained yield. In
order to increase the crop yield the incentives in the shape of inputs
like high yielding varieties of seed, fertilizers and pesticides and
improved agricultural implements is to be provided to enable the
farming community for adoption of improved dry land technology.
There is more potential for developing the rainfed farming in this
village. This villages was further divided in to 2 clusters,
Maddelacheruvu Palli cluster I with an area of 34.14 ha and
Maddelacheruvu Palli cluster II with an area of 33.76 ha.
The Natural resources and other sources Maddelacheruvu
Palli cluster I and II given below.
Natural Resources and Other sources
1
Tanks
1.Maddela Cheruvu
2. Maddelacheruvu Kunta
3. Ranga reddy Cheruvu
4. Aguva Cheruvu
5.Bahuda River
Mini percolation Tanks
2 no. Mini percolation Tank
Constructed
under
NWDPRA
watershed (2008-09&2010-11)
Farm Ponds
10 no. Farm Ponds constructed
under MGNREGS
Gully Control Works
31 no. of Gully Control Works
under NWDPRA Watershed
Sl
.
N
o
1
Habitation Name
Gram
Panchay
at
No. of
Househ
olds
Households
Mal
e
Femal
e
S
C
BC
Oth
s
186
172
41
10
80
30
30
ST
Maddelacheruvu Palli Chintapar
hty
Charavandlapa
Ramulavari palli
Govindaraja puram
Mekalavaripalli
Yerraguntla bavi
20
50
Kotapalli
30
20
Cheruvumundara
palli
Nayanavari palli
25
89
Total
population
15
0
15
30
1
0
Thallapalli
1
1
Pulleti cheruvu palli
1
2
Pujaravandla palli
1
3
Dataravandla palli
25
10
1
4
Pathakota pallu
20
10
1
5
Chintaparthy
17
5
27
5
300
15
1
6
Moogalamarri
30
15
Kothapalli
15
1
7
M.Kothapalli
Sand
Gravel
Textural class
SCL
60
IV
SL
60
IV
SL
70
IV
SCL
60
II
SL
70
IV
SL
60
IV
SL
80
II
SCL
60
II
SCL
60
IV
SL
70
III
Sl.
No
10
Surve
y no
Soil
Type
PH
EC
6.8
5
6.7
0
6.5
4
6.7
0
6.7
5
6.7
5
6.6
5
6.8
4
6.7
5
6.5
6
0.2
2
0.1
6
0.1
4
0.1
6
0.2
6
0.3
8
0.1
7
0.1
6
0.1
7
0.1
4
Organic carbon
Silt
Soil texture
Clay
Soil Depth(Cm)
SOILS: Soil Survey Studies
159
52
159
46
159
42
159
37
159
36
159
35
159
35
159
42
159
31
159
39
29
5
36
2
38
7
45
5
37
0
35
4
29
5
35
4
30
7
35
4
