Land Degradation is The Instinctive Source of Poverty in Rural Areas of Pakistan

2017 International Conference on Sustainable Development on Energy and Environment Protection

能源学;生态环境科学

Qiu, L.L.^1,2 ; Koondhar, M.A.^3 ; Liu, Y.Y.^3 ; Zeng, W.Z.^1,2

College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Huimin Road No.211, Wenjiang District, Chengdu

611130, China^1

Southwest Center for Poverty Alleviation and Development Research, Sichuan Agricultural University, Huimin Road No.211, Wenjiang District, Chengdu

611130, China^2

College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural Universityersity, Huimin Road No.211, Wenjiang District, Chengdu

611130, China^3

关键词: Agricultural activities;    Food production;    Food security;    Land degradation;    Modern technologies;    Overexploitation;    Review papers;    Soil fertility;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/86/1/012003/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/86/1/012003

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This review paper focused on the correlation between land degradation and poverty. Pakistan is an agricultural country and agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan's economy. For the rapid growth of population food security should be under guarantee as well as the food production. In that farmers overused agrarian inputs, such as fertilizer, pesticide and water, environment and farmers were affected from the perspective of contamination and disease increase respectively. Due to over-exploitation of fertilizer and irrigation, ground water was contaminated, soil fertility weakening,salinity increasing and waterlogged. Consequently, soil was hard to be cultivated. In Pakistan 70% of people live in rural areas who are directly or indirectly involved in agriculture. As a result of land degradation farmers can not gain much benefit from agricultural activities and they are also unable to feed their children. Many of them became criminals, therefore, poverty deepened day after day. In order to alleviate poverty, Pakistan government should subsidize farmers on environmentally friendly inputs and; government should also open agricultural training schools to engage farmers in modern methods of cultivation, and provide modern technologies with subsidy rate. When the farmers are aware of how to increase the fertility of soil by employing modern methods, they can gain higher production, and obvious higher production is critical for living a better life and reducing poverty.