FOs irrigation system

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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL
ENGINEERING, UOL LAHORE
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2. GROUP MEMBER
MOHAMMAD JAMIL BSCT01143049
MOHAMMAD AHMED BSCT01143038
MOHAMMAD ATIF BSCT01143058
IFTIKHAR HUSSAIN BSCT01143159
PROJECT ADVISOR
SIR SAQIB SHAHZAD
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Presentation Outlines

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 Water is important for human and plant life on the earth. It
plays a decisive role in the sustainable livelihoods of rural
people. Approximately 40 percent of the world‘s food
supply is produced on the irrigated land.
BACKGROUND

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 Improvement in access to water serves as a powerful tool to
diversify livelihoods and reduce exposure for small producers.
Irrigation water creates options for extended production across
the year, increases yields and outputs, and creates employment
opportunities.
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BACKGROUND
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 This phenomenon is generally referred to as management
transfer or devolution.
 The Indus Basin Irrigation system of Pakistan is the largest
contiguous irrigation system in the world, serving in excess
of 14 million hectares (Johnson III 2004). The system is fed by
the waters of the Indus River and its tributaries.
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BACKGROUND
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 It consists of three major storage reservoirs, namely, Tarbela
and Chashma on River Indus, and Mangla on River Jhelum,
with a present live-storage of about 15.4 BM3 (12.5 MAF), 19
barrages; 12 inter-river link canals and 43 independent
irrigation canal commands.
 The total length of main canals alone is 58,500 Km. Water
courses comprise another 1,621,000 Kms (Shaikh 2004).
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BACKGROUND
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The main objectives of the present study includes:
 1) To assess the performance Farmer Organization FO
working in the field.
 2) To suggest the guidelines and recommendation for the
improvement in performance of the FO and Irrigation System
to enhance their effectiveness, sustainability and overall
benefits
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
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 3) To assess the agricultural productivity of different crops.
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 The Area Water Board of Bahawalnagar Circle is selected as a
study area. The process of irrigation reforms was initiated as
a pilot project and completed in Bahawalnagr circle.
 As the main objective of study is to assess the performance
Farmer Organization FO working in the field and the
agricultural productivity of different crops.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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 Therefore, based on the above consideration and to meet the
objectives of the study, the Bahawalnagar Region is selected as
a case study on account of the reason that first phase of reform
process was initiated and completed on canal division.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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BAHAWALNAGAR
INDIA
DONGA BONGA
HAROONABAD
MINCHANABAD
PAKPATAN
MAROT
FORTABBAS
PROJECT AREA
IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OF
DISTRICT BAHAWALNAGAR
CHISTIAN
DHARANWAL
Jalwala
Whallar
Gulabali
Mianwal Tobba
Chanana Head
To Bahawalpur
To Arifwala
Hakra
Branch
Malik
Branch
Fordwah
Canal
Eastern Sadiqia
Canal
Head Sulemanki
BAHAWALNAGAR
INDIA
DONGA BONGA
HAROONABAD
MINCHANABAD
PAKPATAN
MAROT
FORTABBAS
PROJECT AREA
IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OF
DISTRICT BAHAWALNAGAR
CHISTIAN
DHARANWAL
Jalwala
Whallar
Gulabali
Mianwal Tobba
Chanana Head
To Bahawalpur
To Arifwala
Hakra
Branch
Malik
Branch
Fordwah
Canal
Eastern Sadiqia
Canal
Head Sulemanki
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METHODOLOGY
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Research Site:

13.  AREA WATER BOARD BAHAWALNAGAR
SALIENT FEATURES
Total Farmers Organizations 70
Operationalize FOs 69
Total Khal Panchayats 4259
Canal Divisions 03 (Fordwah, Sadiqia & Hakra)
FOs falls in Fordwah Divi. 38
FOs falls in Sadiqia Divi. 15
FOs falls in Hakra Divi. 17
Major Crops Rice, Cotton,
Sugarcane,Maize,Wheat, Oilseed and fodder
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RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
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 Research Approach:
 Research approach for the proposed research will
include the following steps
 Data Sources and Collection :
 Two types of data will be collected.
 Primary data
 Secondary data
 Primary Data Collection:
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RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
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 Primary Data Collection:
 For collection of primary data, the researcher will read out
literature review. Literature review will contribute towards
our understanding of the existing irrigation system. The
researcher will interview the respondents personally at their
farms.
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RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
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 Although questionnaire will be constructed in English, yet the
questions will be asked in their local language (Punjabi) for the
convenience of interviewees to get the required information
with maximum accuracy.
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METHODOLOGY

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 While interviewing, researcher will try his best to maintain
informal and friendly atmosphere in order to obtain the data
from the respondents. Records of irrigation activities and
transaction records for the years 2004-05 and 2006-07
growing seasons will also be collected.
 Fieldwork in the community will be the ultimate focus of
study as farmers are the most important stakeholders in the
process.
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METHODOLOGY

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 Secondary Data Collection :
 Various secondary data sets will also be collected in order to support the
results on primary data set. Pre-IMT data for two years (1999 and 2000)
will be collected from the Punjab Irrigation Department (PID). Data will
include assessment of water charges, collection of water charges, O&M
expenditures, non-development expenditures, Head-Tail equity in water
distribution and disputes reported from Head and Tail end reaches.
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METHODOLOGY

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 Information regarding design discharge of distributary at the
Head will also be collected. Post-IMT data for the last two
years (2005 and 2006) will be collected from the FOs working
in the field.
 In this research, selected distributaries in the Bahawalnagar
Area Water Board Circle will be examined and assessed for
their physical and economic performance before and after
management transfer.
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY

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 Visit the libraries and offices of the following institutions to
collect the relevant material:
 Irrigation Research Institute(IRI) of Punjab Irrigation
Department
 Punjab Irrigation and Drainage Authority(PIDA)
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Analytical framework:
The Cobb-Douglas production function is used to estimate crops
productivity in pre and post reform periods. This function will be
found to be an adequate representation of data. Various workers
(1, 2, 3, 4) have also used similar production function in such type
of studies. Generalized form of Cobb-Douglas production
function for estimation of sugarcane productivity is given as:
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METHODOLOGY

22. A developed Cobb Douglas model can be applied for:
 The good performance of FO initiatives will enable the
farmers to participate in the irrigation management in a
constructive mode.
 It will create relationship between the location of farms
along the distributary and their respective yield and income.
 It will show that, on an average the lowest yield is achieved
by the farmers at the tail end reaches which is lower than the
yields obtained by the farmers at the head and middle reach
areas.
 This low yield at the tail reaches will be attributed to low
surface water availability.
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Expected Research
Outcomes
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 Performance of FO will have positive impact on average yield
of wheat, sugarcane and rice in the study area. It will be found
that average yield of wheat on an overall basis will be increased
by 10 percent, sugarcane by 5 percent and rice by 13 percent.
Average gross margins of these crops will have significantly
increased after reforms.
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Expected Research
Outcomes
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 It will be concluded that average increase in gross margins of
sugarcane and rice may be increased by 38 percent and 43
percent, respectively. It will also concluded that cost of
production of the farmers and particularly located at the Tail
reaches reduced as there will more supply of surface
irrigation water that will replace the tube well irrigation
which is relatively more costly.
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Expected Research
Outcomes
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 Aabiana recovery percentage on an overall basis, will be
increased from 43 percent to 70 percent after irrigation
management transfer.
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Expected Research
Outcomes
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 A lot of work is required to evaluate the performance of Punjab
Irrigation and Drainage Authority (PIDA), Area Water Board
(AWB) and Farmer Organizations (FOs). Performance
measurement should concentrate on economic, institutional
and technical efficiency issues.
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UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH
RESULTS
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 There will be need to evaluate empirically the extent of
maintenance and improvement activities, the distribution
and productivity of water and changes in the size and
distribution of farm incomes before and after irrigation
management transfer.
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UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH
RESULTS
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 The present study is first empirical study of its kind on the
issue of evaluation of impact assessment of irrigation system
in Pakistan.
 In spite of the fact that empirical evidence and literature
review is not available, efforts will be made to capture all
possible dimensions in this study.
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UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH
RESULTS
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Activities
Time (Months)
Months
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Months
2
Months
3
Months
4
Months
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Months
6
Literature Review
Data source & Collection
Data Entry
Analysis
Preparation of Thesis
Viva voce
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RESEARCH TIME FRAME
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