Sustainable land and water resources management in the arid zone of Southern Kazakhstan in terms of increased aridity
Project aim:
Demonstration of the new agricultural practices to reduce the risks in the face of a changing climate conditions through introduction of innovative methods of water use and stabling goats as alternative to sheep breeding given the increasing climate aridity.
Project tasks:
- Development of economically and environmentally beneficial non-grazing Saanen goat breed as an alternative to the conventional grazing cattle farming
- Development of the demonstrational sites of seeded grasslands in order to enhance the forage base of the local community?s livestock
- Rational groundwater management for the irrigation needs with due regard to the climate changes within the project site
- Seasonal grazing patterns have been developed for the rational use of lands
- Environmental awareness activities and sharing the project experience among the LC members of the neighboring villages
Project results:
- The mini-farms have been designed along with the goats? maintenance conditions, mini-farms for goats have been constructed at the household plots of the local community members, 60 goats have been purchased
- Feeding ration and a set of veterinary activities have been developed
- Pre-seeding processing of lucerne and barley seeds (Professor Ashirov?s technology) raising the yield capacity of agricultural crops
- The field has been prepared and lucerne has been seeded covering 50ha or the agricultural lands and the household plots of LC members
- Irrigation performed in compliance with the lucerne farming techniques
- Lucerne hay collected
- 4 wells have been drilled to develop the irrigation system for lucerne plantations
- The piping has been laid and sprinklers have been installed on 4 sites
- The LC members and village inhabitants have been trained in practicing the sprinkling irrigation technique
- 110 ha of pastures maintained by the local community have been surveyed (at the beginning and end of the project) and the pastoral forage value has been identified
- The system of rational grazing has been implemented for the cattle owned by the local community within the grassland covering 110ha
- Zhailma PA and Biogene PA have organized the meetings, discussions and field days for the inhabitants of the neighboring villages dedicated to the adaptation methods under the climate aridization conditions
Demonstration of the new agricultural practices to reduce the risks in the face of a changing climate conditions through introduction of innovative methods of water use and stabling goats as alternative to sheep breeding given the increasing climate aridity.
Project tasks:
- Development of economically and environmentally beneficial non-grazing Saanen goat breed as an alternative to the conventional grazing cattle farming
- Development of the demonstrational sites of seeded grasslands in order to enhance the forage base of the local community?s livestock
- Rational groundwater management for the irrigation needs with due regard to the climate changes within the project site
- Seasonal grazing patterns have been developed for the rational use of lands
- Environmental awareness activities and sharing the project experience among the LC members of the neighboring villages
Project results:
- The mini-farms have been designed along with the goats? maintenance conditions, mini-farms for goats have been constructed at the household plots of the local community members, 60 goats have been purchased
- Feeding ration and a set of veterinary activities have been developed
- Pre-seeding processing of lucerne and barley seeds (Professor Ashirov?s technology) raising the yield capacity of agricultural crops
- The field has been prepared and lucerne has been seeded covering 50ha or the agricultural lands and the household plots of LC members
- Irrigation performed in compliance with the lucerne farming techniques
- Lucerne hay collected
- 4 wells have been drilled to develop the irrigation system for lucerne plantations
- The piping has been laid and sprinklers have been installed on 4 sites
- The LC members and village inhabitants have been trained in practicing the sprinkling irrigation technique
- 110 ha of pastures maintained by the local community have been surveyed (at the beginning and end of the project) and the pastoral forage value has been identified
- The system of rational grazing has been implemented for the cattle owned by the local community within the grassland covering 110ha
- Zhailma PA and Biogene PA have organized the meetings, discussions and field days for the inhabitants of the neighboring villages dedicated to the adaptation methods under the climate aridization conditions
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
BIOGEN Public Association
Country:
Kazakhstan
Area Of Work:
Community Based Adaptation
Grant Amount:
US$ 34,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 32,620.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 10,360.00
Project Number:
CBA/KAZ/SPA/2011/01
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
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Project Characteristics and Results
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
Information publication has been published (format ?4, colored photos) in Kazakh and Russian for the purpose of agricultural extension and dissemination of the outcomes gained in respect of the advantages of non-grazing goat breeding and sprinkling irrigation as well as the influence of the method proposed on the LC vulnerability reduction to the climate change risks, and PV film production. The project experience has been disseminated via mass media to be replicated by the other local communities.
Notable Community Participation
Local community is the main power of this project realizing. Main project activities are implemented with locals active participation. Project consultants bring into play different people from the local community to take care of pastures and lands around.
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