Sustainability and efficiency analysis w.r.t adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Pakistan: a group-wise comparison of adopters and conventional farmers.

Autor: Imran MA; Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. ali.imran@mnsuam.edu.pk.; Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan. ali.imran@mnsuam.edu.pk., Ali A; Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan., Culas RJ; School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia., Ashfaq M; Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan., Baig IA; Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan., Nasir S; Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan., Hashmi AH; Director ORIC, Virtual University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international [Environ Sci Pollut Res Int] 2022 Mar; Vol. 29 (13), pp. 19337-19351. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 29.
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-17181-3
Abstrakt: Climate change, conventional agricultural management practices, and increasing water scarcity pose a major threat to agricultural production and biodiversity as well as environmental sustainability. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is recognized as an efficient, sustainable, and feasible agricultural system that plays a vital role in addressing the potential impacts of climate change in Pakistan. First-hand information was collected from 450 farm households in 24 villages from Okara, Sahiwal, and Khanewal irrigation divisions, having various wheat-based cropping systems of Pakistan. This includes rice-wheat (RW), maize-wheat (MW), and cotton-wheat (CW) cropping systems in the Lower Bari Doab Canal (LBDC) irrigation system. This study estimated and compared the sustainability and efficiency analysis of CSA and conventional agricultural practices. This study also estimated the impact of water-smart practices of the CSA, technical training, and groundwater quality on agricultural production by using production function and bootstrap truncated regression. The findings of this study revealed that adopters of CSA of the wheat-based cropping systems have higher economic benefits and improved resource use efficiencies compared to the conventional farmers. The findings of the study also revealed the increased efficiency of CSA adopters over other two systems in CW cropping system. The water-smart practices of CSA, access to credit, technical training, use of groundwater of varying quality, and other inputs also showed variations in the agricultural production and resource use efficiency. It has been concluded that farmers can earn more profit, save inputs (such as water), and increase their production by adopting water-smart practices of CSA. Hence, the government and other relevant institutions should devise and implement policies that adequately addressed the importance and enhance the use of water-smart practices of CSA in Punjab and beyond.
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