Poverty alleviation through community extension services A Presentation By Mr Allah Dad Khan Former Director General Agriculture Extension KPK Province and Visiting Professor the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan

3. Poverty Alleviation
Through Community
Extension
By
Mr. Allah Dad Khan

8. Poverty-According to Report 20
June 2016 ( UNDP)
According to the report, nearly 39
percent of Pakistanis live in
multidimensional poverty, with the
highest rates of poverty in FATA and
Baluchistan. Pakistan’s MPI showed a
strong decline, with national poverty
rates falling from 55% to 39% from 2004
to 2015. However progress across
different regions of Pakistan is uneven.
Poverty in urban areas is 9.3 percent as
compared to 54.6 percent in rural areas.
Disparities also exist across provinces

9. Poverty -According to Report 20th
June 2016 ( UNDP)
The Multidimensional Poverty Index uses
a broader concept of poverty than
income and wealth alone. It reflects the
deprivations people experience with
respect to health, education and
standard of living, and is thus a more
detailed way of understanding and
alleviating poverty

10. Poverty-According to Report
20th June 2016 ( UNDP)
The report found that over two-thirds of
people in FATA (73 percent) and Baluchistan
(71 percent) live in multidimensional poverty.
Poverty in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stands at 49
percent, Gilgit-Baltistan and Sindh at 43
percent,
Punjab at 31 percent and
Azad Jammu and Kashmir at 25 percent

11. What Extension do?
1. Extension needs to address vulnerability as well as productivity and to
offer new options from which poor
2. Households can choose according to their circumstances.
3. The design of extension strategies must take account of differing
degrees of market integration, which determine
4. The degree to which the poor can take advantage of market
opportunities.
5. Extension strategies need to differentiate between highly- and weakly-
integrated areas and acknowledge the
6. Need to take difficult decisions between supporting production
strategies, on the one hand, and broader-based
7. livelihood extension, on the other.
8. Extension should offer a wider range of services, some focused on
support to production and others focused on
9. Wider livelihood support, targeted according to an analysis of a
particular area’s market integration, degree of
10. Vulnerability, and production prospects.

12. What Extension do?
11.The need to draw explicit links between pro-poor policy and
the role of extension, though these may be both through direct
and indirect effects; • the need to learn about how the poor
benefit in different ways from investment in extension (as
producers, consumers, laborers, citizens);
12.The need specifically to analyze the mix of signals and
incentives that are sent to frontline extension staff (e.g.
objectives such as poverty alleviation, modernization and
aggregate production increase),and how these staff interpret
their roles and priorities

15. Solutions /Remedies to Overcome
the Poverty in Pakistan
1. Economic liberalization by extending property rights protection to
the poor .
2. Investing in Infrastructure , education and appropriate technology
3.Employment and productivity
4.Buliding opportunities for self sufficiency
5.Micro loans for small farmers
6. Empowering women through their involvement
7.Donate things you do not use to charity
8.Donate food that wont spoil to food banks
9.Education
10.Lots of opportunities
11.Provision

16. The major constraints faced by
agriculture in Pakistan are:
1. Low availability and productivity of water, for irrigation.
2. Primitive nature of farming, still exist
3. Waterlogging and salinity, in some places
4. Problematic marketing system, local and district market
5. Complex agriculture credit institutions, for obtaining loan by small famers.
6. Inadequate research and extension services,
7. Under utilization of land resources,
8. Achievable yield potential,
9. Non-development of rain fed area
10. Dwindling land units,
11. Poor infra-structure,
12. Pricing and quality of input

18. How We Alleviate
Poverty Through
Community Extension
Services

21. Community Extension Services
(Agriculture Extension )
1.Formation of Farmers /community based Organizations.
2.Agriculture inputs sale center at Farmers door steps
(Commercialization of provision of inputs through incentives to the
private sector for inputs such as fertilizers and other agrochemicals;
)
3.Community capacity building through training and visit.
4.Collective Marketing through Farm Services enters ( Market
Information system)
5.Farm to Market Road
6. Income generation projects/ Cottage Industry (Encouraging
Processing through adequate incentives to SMEs from such funds
as the Agricultural Development Funds)
7. One Village One Product

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25. Community Extension Services
( Agriculture Extension)
8.Medicinal Plants Conservation and Cultivation
9.Agro and social forestry
10. Introduction of High Yield varieties of crops , fruits and
vegetables.
11. Training of Agriculture Extension Workers .(Basic Skills and
Entrepreneurship Training (BEST)
12.Cooperative Farming (Assistance in forming co-operatives)
13.New Intervention in Agriculture
14.Organic Farming
15. Promotion of Agriculture Education at basic level.
16. Credit for Agriculture to land and landless farmers

26. Community Extension Services
( Agriculture Extension)
17. Exposure Visit to communities.
18.Apiculture. ,
19.Mushroom Cultivation
20.Kitchen Gardening
21. Production Incentives that Encourage growth in the Rural areas should
be advanced.
22. Increasing Irrigated areas for food production which will make people to
be gain fully employed even during the dry season

31. Community Extension Services (
Livestock Extension Services)
1.Training of LEW
2.Fodde Production Technology updated
3.Back Yard Poultry Farming
4.Pheasents Farming
5.Breed Improvement
6.Goat and Sheep management
7.Artificial insemination
8.Pasture Management
9. Credit for Livestock.
10.Mall Mandi

37. Community Extension Services
(Natural Resource Management )
1.Biodiversity conservation
2. Conservation of Forests
3.Wild Life Conservation
4.Water Management
5. Energy management through Hydel Power
6. Agri Tourism
7. Exploitation of Natural Beauty of Area.
8.Reforestation and Afforestation
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38. Community Extension Services (
Women Empowerment)
1. Women Organization strengthening.
2. Women Capacity development through training in different sectors
3.Provision of micro credit.
4. Women Projects at Community Level
5.Women Employment Opportunity
6. Apiculture
7.Fruit Preservation
8.Kitchen Gardening
9. Forest Nursery Production
10 Medicinal Plants Wild and Cultivated
11. Education

41. Community Extension (Fisheries
Extension Services )
Services
 1, Development of Fisheries
 2.Trout
 3. Ponds
 4.Fish Marketing.

51. Climate Of Gilgit
 Gilgit experiences a cold desert climate (Köppen climate
classification BWk). Weather conditions for Gilgit are
dominated by its geographical location, a valley in a
mountainous area, southwest of Karakoram range. The
prevalent season of Gilgit is winter, occupying the valley eight
to nine months a year.
 Gilgit lacks significant rainfall, averaging in 120 to 240
millimetres (4.7 to 9.4 in) annually, as monsoon breaks against
the southern range of Himalayas. Irrigation for land cultivation
is obtained from the rivers, abundant with melting snow water
from higher altitudes.
 The summer season is brief and hot. The piercing sunrays may
raise the temperature up to 40 °C (104 °F), yet it is always cool
in the shade. As a result of this extremity in the weather,
landslides and avalanches are frequent in the area

53. Climate Change
 1. Climate Mitigation
 2. Preparation for Disaster and drought
 3.Technical solution to meet the challenge
 4. Training , Seminars and conferences