<%@ Page Language="VB"%> <%@ Import Namespace="System"%> <%@ Register TagPrefix="ucl" TagName="header" src="../incs/header.ascx" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="ucl" TagName="footer" src="../incs/footer.ascx" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <HTML> <HEAD> <title>SCALING UP WATER PRODUCTIVITY:: Overview</title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005"> <meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" content="Visual Basic .NET 2005"> <meta name="vs_defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="description" content="Your website description goes here"> <meta name="keywords" content="your,keywords,goes,here"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../incs/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" media="screen,projection"> </HEAD> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header"> <ucl:header id="header1" runat="server" /> </div> <div id="navigation"> <ul> <li style="WIDTH:100px"> <a href="http://www.iwmi.org">IWMI HOME</a></li> <li style="WIDTH:160px"> <a href="index.aspx" class="selected">PROJECT OVERVIEW</a></li> <li style="WIDTH:190px"> <a href="Outputs.aspx">PUBLICATIONS / OUTPUTS</a> </li> <li style="WIDTH:160px"> <a href="Lessons.aspx">LESSONS / RESULTS</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="content"> <h2>SCALING UP WATER PRODUCTIVITY: PAKISTAN COMPONENT</h2> <h4><a href="../index.aspx" target="_self"></a></h4> <table> <tr> <td height="23"></td> </tr> </table> <p align="justify"> <table> <tr> <td Colspan="2"> <h3>Objectives</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td Colspan="2"> <ul><li>To study the crop water productivity at micro scale through field observations, existing data sets and simulation modelling <li>Spatial analysis for land use classification and crop water use (actual evapotranspiration) using remote sensing/GIS covering whole Rechna Doab <li>To conduct socio-economic and agro-hydrological survey of sample areas of Rechna Doab for capturing variability in socio-economic conditions, agricultural practices, water availability, and land use and explore options for improvements in crop production and water productivity at the higher scales of Rechna Doab <li>To evaluate the impact of different resource conservation technologies on water saving and productivity at field, farm and system scale <li>To identify the key factors that affect agricultural water productivity across scales <li>To develop and evaluate different water management strategies (including resource conservation technologies) to enhance average basin water productivity taking into account IWMI s understanding of basin level efficiency. </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="5"></td> </tr> <tr> <td Colspan="2"> <h3>Methods</h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="2"> <ul> <li> The project focused on variability in land and water productivity across two characteristic irrigated farming systems in Rechna Doab, Punjab, Pakistan  Rice-wheat (higher water availability and lower salinity) and Sugar-Cane Wheat systems (lower water availability and higher salinity). The factors of land and water productivity were investigated at field, farm, distributary (component part of an irrigation system), irrigation system and basin scale. <li>Under this project, range of datasets (primary, secondary, survey and remote sensing) and tools (agro-hydrological and statistical models, GIS/remote sensing etc) were used to understand the productivity, agricultural water use performance and water balance analysis. </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="5"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <h3>Project leader</h3> Mobin-ud-din Ahmad (<a href="mailto:A.Mobin@cgiar.org?subject=SCALING UP WATER PRODUCTIVITY">A.Mobin@cgiar.org</a>) </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="15"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <h3>Researchers</h3> Gamage, Nilantha; Giodano, Mark; Hussain, Intizar; Ilyas, Masih; Nazeer, Aamir; Jehangir, Waqar; Shehzad, Ahmad; Turral, Hugh; Zubair, Masood </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="15"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <h3>Major Donors</h3> IWMI Unrestricted Funding </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="15"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <h3>Project Duration</h3> 01 December 2001 to 31 December 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="15"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <h3>Location</h3> Global Research Division, Colombo, Sri lanka </td> </tr> </table> </p><br> </div> <div id="footer"> <ucl:footer id="footer1" runat="server" /> </div> </div> </body> </HTML>