water & crops

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Water is colourless,

transparent, odourless,

liquid which forms the

seas, lakes, rivers, and

rain and is the basis.

Water is the one of the

most important things

for a living being to

survive. A living

creature can live a

longer time drinking

water than eating as

much healthy food.


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Water is life.

World without water.

Save water save Pakistan.


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Water crisis is aterm used to refer

to the worlds water

resources relative to

human demand.

The term has been

applied to the

worldwide watersituation by the

United Nations and

other world

organizations.


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It the less availability of the water to the

crops and humans.

Water resource are becoming scarce.

1. Increased rate of population growth.

2. Agricultural crises.

3. Environmental crises.


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"If there are no allocations possible, it will

have a potentially devastating impact on

horticultural crops like grapes and stonefruits and other primary industries that rely

on irrigation such as the dairy industry.


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Cotton crop, which is the mainstay of exportshaving a weight of almost 66% was targetedto be sown in the area of 2.930 millionhectare with a production target of 9.7million bales. The latest information suggeststhat the area sown under cotton hassurpassed the target by 1.5% i.e. 2.973million hectare.

The area sown under cotton in Punjab was5.8% higher than the target (2.433 millionhectares as against the target of 2.3 millionhectares).


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The sowing of cotton in Sindh was however,seriously affected by shortage of water. As

against the target of 630,000 hectares,cotton was sown in the area of 522,000hectares, i.e. 7.2% lower than the target.Higher sowing in Punjab more thancompensated the loss in area sown in Sindh.

The provisional estimates as reported by theprovinces to the Federal Committee onAgriculture (FCA) suggest that the size of thecotton crop is 9.5 million bales as against thetarget of 9.7 million bales and last year'sproduction of 11.24 million bales. In otherword, the size of the cotton crop is 15.4lower than that of last year.


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Un effected. Effected by water shortage .


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The area under sugarcane was targeted at

1.0 million hectare and production was

targeted at 51.6 million tons 11.4% higher

than last year's production. The latestinformation suggests that the area sown

under sugarcane was 7.5% below the target

(925,000 hectares against 1.0 million

hectares). In Punjab, the area sown was 10.6% below

the target, mainly due to the shortage of

water.


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In Sindh the area sown under sugarcane has

surpassed the target by 5.2% (263,000 hectares

against the target of 250,000 hectares) mainlybecause it escaped the shortage of water as crop

is sown there in September.

In N.W.F.P .The provisional estimates, as

reported by the provinces suggest that the size

of the sugarcane crop is 41.8 million tons asagainst the target of 51.6 million tons and last

year's production of 46.33 million tons.

In other word, sugarcane production is 12.3%

lower than last year. Rice was targeted to besown in 2.411 million hectares area and

production was targeted at 5.1 million tons. The

sowing time for rice in Sindh was June/July and

for Punjab it was July/August


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Effected by water shoratage.Un effected.


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The rice production

is 4.5 million tons as

against the target of

5.1 million tons andlast year's

production of 5.156

million tons. In

other words riceproduction is 9.8%

lower than last year.


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Wheat is a rabi crop.The target for area

sown and production

are fixed for 2000-01

at 8.43 million

hectare and 20

million tons,

respectively.

Provisional estimates

of wheat productionwill be available by

May 2001. The

production exceeded

22 million tonnes last

year.


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Water and Migration.

The Economics of Water for the Poor.

Water Shortage and Survival Strategies.

Water and Health.

What is food security?


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Why food insecurity?

1. Poverty.

2. Health.

3. Water and environment.

4. Disasters and conflicts.

5. Population and urbanization.


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Shortage water resources not only cause

damage to standing crops but also to our canal

systems.

Scarcity of water will cause the shortage of foodin directly by reducing the cropped area as well

as growth.

Shortage of water resources will also adversely

affect various sectors of Pakistans economy.

Scarcity of water will lead to various

disasters/hazards.


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