Range and pasture improvement project, Maslakh (Quetta Kalat Circle) - Result of four years protection and other range improvement practices
Range and pasture improvement project, Maslakh (Quetta Kalat Circle) - Result of four years protection and other range improvement practices
M. Said and Tahir Hussain
ABSTRACT
Introduction
In Quetta-Kalat region of West Pakistan hardly two percent of the total land area is under cultivation. Due to the limiting factors of low rainfall and scanty ground water supply the economy of this region has been and will continue to be primarily pastoral. Improvements of forage supply for livestock from the grazing lands is an obvious necessity. A range and pasture improvement scheme has been started at Maslakh near Quetta as a pilot project to evolve techniques of range and pasture improvement in this region. The project extends over an area of 115,040 acres.
The scheme was started in the middle of 1954 and so far in addition to complete protection from grazing, various range improvement works have been carried out, e.g., check damming, gulley plugging, pit digging, water spreading and development of water for livestock.
Preliminary studies on the ecological changes in vegetation are being regularly carried out. For the proper appreciation of the results achieved it is necessary to give a brief description of the past history and other factors connected with the range.
In Quetta-Kalat region of West Pakistan hardly two percent of the total land area is under cultivation. Due to the limiting factors of low rainfall and scanty ground water supply the economy of this region has been and will continue to be primarily pastoral. Improvements of forage supply for livestock from the grazing lands is an obvious necessity. A range and pasture improvement scheme has been started at Maslakh near Quetta as a pilot project to evolve techniques of range and pasture improvement in this region. The project extends over an area of 115,040 acres.
The scheme was started in the middle of 1954 and so far in addition to complete protection from grazing, various range improvement works have been carried out, e.g., check damming, gulley plugging, pit digging, water spreading and development of water for livestock.
Preliminary studies on the ecological changes in vegetation are being regularly carried out. For the proper appreciation of the results achieved it is necessary to give a brief description of the past history and other factors connected with the range.
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September 1959
Vol. 9, Iss. 3
