A bocage is a balanced environment, created to combine trees, crops and livestock. The concept of a bocage perimeter is created to solve the problems associated with extensive agriculture (overgrazing, erosion, fires etc.). A bocage perimeter is the result of land consolidation at the request of owners of a site. The owners work in ‘land groups’ to make environmental improvements to a plot. The primary purpose of a bocage is to retain water where it falls by developing bunds, ponds and hedgerows. This helps reduce the erosive action of monsoon rains and helps maintain the biodiversity of an extremely fragile environment.