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Impacts of Irrigation and Drainage Development Projects in Pakistan: Farmers’ Perceptions
Get PDFUsing well-designed sample, anecdotal evidence from farmers of a recently completed irrigation and drainage project in Bhawalnagar Pakistan, valuable impact indicators could be assessed. The case study suggests that although this simple and quick method is not a substitute for the detailed scientific survey, yet it can be handy, sufficient, and could be usefully used at a nominal cost as a supplementary method. The parameters approached were the depth to water-table, crop yields, cropping pattern, abandoned lands, water distribution, and seepage reduction, etc. The results showed that some of these, including the depth to water-table, seepage reduction, and cropping pattern compared well with previous technical studies, while some others did not. The physical interventions of the project under quick evaluation comprised concrete lining of about 170 kms of the distributary canals and 352 kms of surface drains. The paper concludes that the farmers’ perceptions, when carefully designed and analysed, offer substantial feedback for remedial actions and for planning future projects.
Returns to Facilitating Farmers’ Organisations for Distributary Maintenance: Empirical Results from a Pilot Project in Southern Punjab
Get PDFInstitutional reforms currently underway in Pakistan’s irrigation and drainage sector require that farmers take over the operation and maintenance responsibilities of their secondary canals. However, the farmers need to be organised first, for which investments are a prerequisite. A great deal of skepticism about the farmers’ collective ability and willingness to undertake the needed tasks exists, even now when they are actually organised. This skepticism originates from past experiences when direct subsidies were offered to induce collective action. Theoretically, collective action can be more sustainable if investments are made in capacity building for the tasks that the farmers have to perform to improve the service delivery. Farmers are being organised for distributary operation and maintenance. So far, the delay in formulation of an appropriate legal framework has prevented the irrigation departments from formally transferring the operation and maintenance responsibilities to farmers. Self-help-based maintenance has been the only avenue for farmers to participate in the management of the irrigation system. The paper uses data pertaining to the cost of facilitation and estimates the amount of resources mobilised for two successive years from a pilot project. The analysis shows that investments made for facilitation do pay off. Investment in facilitation returns 69 percent higher than the actual investment per year during the initial years. In the short-run, the returns to facilitation indicate an increasing trend. The paper argues that when compared to previous approaches adopted in Pakistan, investments for facilitation and capacity building have a greater chance of prompting sustainable collective action for irrigation and drainage management.
Institutional reforms in irrigation sector of Punjab, Pakistan: Proceedings of Workshop held at Faisalabad Serena on 10-11 February 2000
Get PDFInstitution building / Irrigated farming / Irrigation management / Participatory management / Farmer participation / Farmers' associations / Pakistan / Punjab / Hakra
Institutional reforms in irrigation sector of Punjab, Pakistan: Proceedings of Workshop held at Faisalabad Serena on 10-11 February 2000
Get PDFInstitution building / Irrigated farming / Irrigation management / Participatory management / Farmer participation / Farmers' associations / Pakistan / Punjab / Hakra
Institutional reforms in irrigation sector of Balochistan, Pakistan: Proceedings of the Workshop held at Dera Murad Jamali, 30-31 October 1999
No full textDetermination of Iodide, Iodate, Dichromate, Bismuth(III) and Hydrogen Peroxide Through Spot Tests Quantification by Computational Image Scanning Densitometry
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Self-help maintenance activities by the Water Users Federation of Hakra 4-R Distributary
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Impacts of farmer participation for water resources management in the Punjab Province, Pakistan: an analysis of process documentation for the Hakra 4-R Distributary
No full textWater resource managementIrrigation managementDistributary canalsFarmers' associationsWater users' associationsFarmer participationIndicatorsWater distributionMaintenanceCommunicationFarmer-agency interactionsOrganizational developmentLegal aspectsParticipatory managementConflictLeadership
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