INTEGRATED CROP MANAGEMENT /
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

BACKGROUND

Pakistan is an agriculture country and most of its inhabitants are engaged with agriculture.  Agriculture provides the basic needs of life (food / cloth / shelter).  It is also the backbone of our economy.  Population of Pakistan is increasing at the rate of 3.1 % per annum but our agriculture production is 2.5 per annum there is big gap between the population rate and the production rate.  We can fill the mouth of the increasing population by either increasing our area under agriculture or increasing per acre yield.  It is impossible to increase area under agriculture; however, we can increase per acre yield. 

For increasing the production, farmers use great number of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, which leave their poison on the products. When human beings consume these polluted products, their health in the form of different diseases like cancer, cardiovascular, stomach diseases and tension. These pesticides also affect environment and other living things. So there is a need to implement such techniques, where the utilization of pesticides should be decreased and crops are grown through natural methods.

GOAL

• To promote organic farming and to reduce chemical pesticides
  

OBJECTIVES

• to control the pest through biological means
• to promote alternative / integrated farming system
• to ensure less use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides
• to build confidence of the farmers
• to increase the yield
• to aware the farmer about their rights and obligations
• to establish 10 Farmer Field Schools and at least 25 farmers in each school
  

WORKING MYTHOLOGY

• The area is selected through close coordination of Animation and Parish teams
• The collective meetings of farmers are arranged to aware them about the program and activities
• The plots are selected with the consent of the farmer, where all inputs are given by CPL and end product (yield) is given to the farmer
• The selected farmer has to gather 25 farmers at least to form “Farmer Field School”, where the farmers would be taught about these techniques and methods to cultivate the product organically. This school is conducted fortnightly
• The Caritas team assists the farmers to implement organic methods for model
• The monitoring team visits the school and selected plots to share the problems and guide them for organic farming

IMPACTS

• The chemical fertilizer and pesticides on the crops will be reduced
• The organic farming system will be promoted
• The methods and techniques of organic farming will be transferred to other farmers as well
• The farmers will be stable economically
• The confidence of the farmer increased to share their problems and benefits
• Healthy Environment will be available and positive effect on human health