Bio-diversity

Using Street theater, the project will mobilize farmers for rational use of pesticides and will create aarness among local communities on different environmental issues. The bio-diversity of Arid and semi Arid ecosystem of the project area and surrounding zone is threatened by increased pressure from more intensified land use, particularly if current trends to over use agricultural pesticides continues. Importantly, the completion of the Chasma Right Bank Irrigation Project will mark a major shift from traditional agricultural practices that hold an established agro ecosystem intact to irrigated and commercialized agricultural that marginalises poor farmers and destroys bio-diversity. The project will help promote and conserve traditional varieties and methods of pest control, based on management techniques that are centuries old.

Pakistan