Farmers perceptions on impact of water scarcity in Pishin Lora Basin of Balochistan

Zainuddin Kakar

doi:10.19045/bspab.2017.60027

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to analyze the impact of water scarcity on farmers’ incomes and employment in Pishin Lora Basin. The study is based on primary data which was collected from 300 farmers through a well-structured questionnaire. The main findings of the study are that the persistent water shortage has led to a noteworthy decline in the cultivated farm area, the drying of fruit trees in large numbers, and losses of livestock over the last ten years have caused enormous losses in farmers’ incomes and increases unemployment in the area. On the basis of the findings of the study various measures are recommended to overcome water scarcity in the short and long run such as the construction of new dams to store the runoff water; educating the farmers about the use of high efficiency irrigation systems to increase farm level water use efficiency; improve power supplies to the agriculture tube wells; and remove power outages. Keywords: Farmers perceptions; Impact of water scarcity; Low income; High efficiency irrigation system; Power supply http://dx.doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2017.60027

Highlights

The present study was undertaken to analyze the impact of water scarcity on farmers’ incomes and employment in Pishin Lora Basin
First sub-section of this section presents farmers’ perception about the current status of water in the study area of Pishin Lora Basin (PLB), after that second sub-section presents the information about the impact of water scarcity on different enterprises
The details are as follows: Current status of water resources in Pishin Lora Bain Pishin Lora Basin lies in arid zone of Balochistan

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Introduction

The present study was undertaken to analyze the impact of water scarcity on farmers’ incomes and employment in Pishin Lora Basin. The main findings of the study are that the persistent water shortage has led to a noteworthy decline in the cultivated farm area, the drying of fruit trees in large numbers, and losses of livestock over the last ten years have caused enormous losses in farmers’ incomes and increases unemployment in the area. Many countries the spatial variability in water availability including Pakistan are facing the challenge [3]. Many countries have to face the of rapidly growing water demand, driven by challenge of rapidly growing water increasing population and economic growth demands, driven by an increasing population [1]. Within each district was further divided in the clusters of Union Councils and farmers within each Union Council were selected to give the spatial coverage to the area

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