Environmental policy and administrative management

N. Khisrav district located in south-west of the country and is deemed an arid zone. The population is mainly engaged with agriculture production and animal husbandry. For the past 10 years the production yields of agricultural crops dropped twice. Local farmers are bankrupted and no longer able to payback debts to national and int. investors, and to maintain their farms. The living condition is very poor. The level of labor migrants is rising; as the majority people of labor-age have no access to employment, or existing employers pay very little, which is insufficient to cover basic needs. NGO Jamoat Resource Centre Komsomol is a community based organization (which mandate is to poverty reduction and local economic development), studied the situation and found-out the key reasons, 1) inadequate agriculture farming and production, low ecological education of local farmers, 2) farmers have no knowledge on true irrigation, advanced agricultural methods, 3) lack of access to local funds delayed desilting of drainage networks, disproportionate use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides resulted in increase of underground water, land erosion and degradation, reduction of humus soils and land production. - Poor and undeveloped material and technical capacity of local farmers; - Lack of appropriate knowledge and skills on agricultural farming and methods, - Traditional knowledge on agricultural farming (vegetable growing, horticulture, etc) is no longer available, and existing education does not enable local farmers to shift to new and alternative agriculture crops. - No electricity supply during winter time contributes to massive cutoff of forest, woodlines, shrub-plants, thereby activate land degradation processes.

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