Simple Summary Ensuring the welfare of donkeys in low-middle income countries (LMICs) requires a collective approach involving donkey owners, farriers, veterinarians and researchers. Faisalabad is an industrial city in the Punjab province of Pakistan, where donkeys are used for goods transportation. Working donkeys require regular farriery to avoid...
Historical and future projected changes in climatic patterns over the largest irrigated basin in the world, the Indus River Basin (IRB), threaten agricultural production and food security in Pakistan, in particular for vulnerable farming communities. To build a more detailed understanding of the impacts of climate change on agriculture s in the IRB...
Monitoring soil salinity has always been of a great concern in the context of policies related to the management and rehabilitation of irrigation systems. This is particularly the case in Pakistan that has the largest contiguous irrigation system in the world. During the last 50 years, several national agencies have been assessing salinity hazards ...
This paper describes the results of a study on soil salinity in one irrigation system of the Punjab, in Pakistan. Spatio-temporal variability of severely salt affected soils signatures is analysed in the multispectral images SPOT. A method is presented for the classification of agricultural fields concerned by moderate levels of salinity. It is bas...
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Recent studies in Pakistan's Punjab have emphasized an increasing inequity in the distribution of canal supllies and frequent occurence of fluctuations in irrigation canals. The paper quantifies these phenomena for the Chishtian sub-division in south-east Punjab, suggesting that the large gap between crop water requirements and canal water supplies...
