Assertion: In the Jhabua district, the watershed management programmes were funded by the ministries of “Rural Development” and “Agriculture”.
Reasoning: It has been successfully implemented, and was funded by both ministries for preventing land degradation and improving soil quality.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

The people suffer due to poverty which has been accentuated by the high rate of resource degradation, both forest and land. The watershed management programmes funded by both the ministries of “Rural Development” and “Agriculture”, Government of India, have been successfully implemented in the Jhabua district which has gone a long way in preventing land degradation and improving soil quality.