Under the IWMP project, Gorisana village of Kheralu cluster (Mehsana) has achieved success in augmentation of agricultural and Micro enterprise development practices. The total geographical locale of this cluster is 5000 Ha, out of which 805.2 Ha is taken for treatment of Gorisana village. Soil of this village is of sandy texture yellowish in color and partially porous in nature which naturally is unable to sustain water for longer duration. The ground water table is very low it region comes in dark zone and due to scarcity of water availability for irrigation, farmers are unable to take more than one crops in a year. Thereby the people whose primary occupation is agriculture get engaged in causal labour work during lean seasons.

      The primary reason to promote drip irrigation was to conserve water and use the available ground water judiciously. As most of the people in the area depend on agriculture as livelihood and production purposes, unless the watershed plus approach are undertaken the scope for agriculture development via conserving water seemed meager. In gram sabha, farmer beneficiaries understood the concept of drip irrigation from WDT. Understanding this fact of ground water conservation, 45 farmers of the Kheralu cluster had decided to go for drip irrigation as their source of irrigation.

                      Gujarat Green Revolution Company (GGRC), has played a major role in this revolution, making it possible for farmers to adopt drip irrigation methods by offering aggressive subsidies on capital cost. The convergence is like 50% GGRC, 20% RKVY and Rs. 24000 from IWMP per se is provided per farmer beneficiary. A village level meeting had been called in the village in which different irrigation companies like Jain irrigation, Netafim, John deere, and Paragon elicited the farmers about their schemes. Furthermore the farmers are taken for exposure visit to the drip irrigation units of all these irrigation companies. The farmers then decided to operationalise drip with the support of John deere.

Environmental impacts: The fertility of the land is maintained via drip irrigation as the distribution of insecticides and fertilizers are equally mixed with water in the irrigation tank this saves time, money and energy of the farmers. The plant attains uniform height under drip in a better way. Importantly the crop receives only the required amount of water not exceeding that which in turn saves water and makes it use judiciously. Major impact of drip irrigation in Kheralu was for Crop diversification viz., from rainfed crops to cash crops and bringing cultivable wastelands to fertile agricultural lands.                             

          Dhanji Vagha Bhai is an example of how poor farmers have benefited by adopting modern irrigation methods. Before he switched to drip irrigation in 2012, Dhanji Bhai could irrigate just half of his 1.18 Ha of land. His borewell used to yield water for one hour every seven hours due to low groundwater reserves. Now he only needs 60 per cent of the earlier quantity of water to irrigate the seven acres. A training stint given by John Deere company taught him ways to add new high-yielding varieties of crops. GGRC laid the drip irrigation network at his farm for Rs.62,997.25 . With subsidy, he had to pay only Rs.28,129 only after deducting the farmers contribution of Rs. 10,000 from the IWMP cost.

            Today a total of 45 farmers in Kheralu have adopted drip irrigation and today their entire cultivation is done with the help of drip farming. Furthermore, total of Rs. 1089331 is allotted for drip in Gorisana village of Kheralu. Also the farmers here believe that drip irrigation will go a long way in improving the health of land in Kheralu.