Author: Aye Sandar Phyo
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-14-04
Year: 2014
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2014
Examination Committee: Gopal. B. Thapa (Chairperson); Soparth Pongquan, Jayant K. Routray (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The research assessed the farmers’ adaptation strategies to water scarcity in rainfed and partially irrigated area in the dry zone of Myanmar. The objectives of the research were to know the farmer’s adaptations to cropping system, agronomic practices, and agricultural water utilization and analyze biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional factors influencing adapt ations to cropping system, agronomic practices, and agricultural water utilization and to make recommendations for helping farmers to enhance their agricultural production and household income through adaptation strategies. The research was conducted in t he rainfed village and partially irrigated village located in Meikhtila Township of Myanmar by using a survey questionnaire as a main data collection tool for 117 respondents. Besides, field observation, key informants interview and farmers’ focus group di scussion were also used as the other data collection tools. The research was focused on quantitative analysis but qualitative analysis was also applied. The findings of the research indicated that farmers in rainfed village increased the area of less wate r requiring crops to confront water scarcity and changed their crop varieties into short lived ones. Although farmers in partially irrigated village switched over from less water requiring to more water requiring crops due to availability of water starting from last 10 years, they trie d to minimize the use of water by changing long life span local varieties into relatively shorter life span ones in order to reduce the water requirement period of growing crops. Moreover, they also tried to adjust their agron omic practices in order to adapt water shortage condition by increasing tillage during fallow period, changing crops’ sowing practices and use of manure for crop production. In case of agricultural water utilization, skip row water conservation measure was pr
Scholarship Donor(s): Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the d egree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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