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Matt Stellbauer, Foreign Agricultural Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Demonstrating and Disseminating the Best Practices and
Technologies to Help Rural Farmers in Pakistan
Questions
• Are the stakeholders aware of this impending disaster?
• Is there a realization that water is truly scarce nationally and locally?
• Have the messages been put across on how best to conserve and manage water resources to cater for long-term needs of the nation?
Sender Message Channel Farmer Effect
What’s wrong with this picture? What’s missing?
What did we see
Sender Message Institutions Farmers Effect
Feedback
Farmers (listening)
Sender (Sharing needs)
Farmers First
Seeing is Believing
Watershed Rehabilitation & Irrigation Improvement:Demonstration & Dissemination of Best Practices to Help Rural Farmers NCEG/UP
SindhAgricultural Extension Dept.
SAWCRI
WMRC/UAFIWREM/MUETSARC/PARC
BARISSRI/PARC
WRRI/PARC
Baluchistan
Sindh
Punjab
SACAN
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Partner Institutions• Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI)• Water Research Management Center (WRMC)• Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)• Barani Agricultural Research Institute (BARI)• Soil and Water Conservation Research Institute (SAWCRI)• National Center of Excellence in Geology (NCEG) • Institute of Water Resources Engineering & Management• Agriculture Extension Department, Sindh • Sothern Zone Agricultural Research Center (SARC)• South Asian Conservation Agriculture Network (SACAN)• Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources
Pakistan
United States
• Colorado State University • USDA ( NRCS, Borlaug Fellowship Program)
Field demonstrations of new practices were key to helping farmers:
• Become aware of new practices• Understand the new practice • Believe that a new practice can help them • Try the new practice
Micro Catchment and Eyebrow Furrows Solar Driven Pumping Systems
Affordable Drip System for OrchardsSoil & Water Conservation Measures
Portable Sprinkler Irrigation System for field crops
Farmer Field Days
Introduction of Agricultural Service Providers Into Dissemination Activities
Training of Agricultural Service Providers – Roof-top rainwater harvesting
Training of Agricultural Service Providers – Irrigation systems
So, how do we disseminate our practices and technologies to the field ?
• Written Material
– Brochures on Practices and Technologies – Technical Manuals
• Electronic media– Video– Radio– Internet– Cell phones
Information Communication Technology(ICT)
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes– Radio– Mobile Phones– Television– Digital broadcast and communication Technologies
(YouTube, Digital Green) • ICT’s are useful in improving the linkages between the
research and the extension sub systems
Workshop on making short instructional videos
Using USDA expertise to make farmer to farmer training videos
Soil and Water Conservation Research Institute (SAWCRI), Chakwal
Barani Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Chakwal
Agricultural Extension Sindh
National Center of Excellence in Geology (NCEG), Peshawar
Sothern zone Agricultural Research Center (SARC), PARC Karachi
Water Management Research Center (WMRC), University of Agriculture Faisalabad
ICARDA
List of research institutions with Facebook pages
U.S. Based Study Tours, First-Hand
Views of American Practices
Dr. Abdul Majid, ICARDA – Pakistan and Matt Stellbauer, Foreign Ag Service, Listen to TX farmer on what caused him to stay on the farm and shift practices