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| Natural Resource Management Training Programme
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Environment & Natural Resource Management Training Programme of IRM strives to ensure optimal utilization of available resources at the local level and provision of assistance to reduce dependency upon external resources. This programme aims to develop and strengthen local capabilities for sustainable resource management through prevention of losses in natural resources, productivity enhancement and environmental rehabilitation.
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This helps to ensure sustainable management of resources along with improving production.
At IRM where HRD activities are promoted and valued highly, it is believed that a cadre of activists needs to be trained in various disciplines for the purpose of creating a culture of effective and sustainable management of natural resource at the grassroots level. Every year a large number of participants are trained under ENRMTP and the duration of these training events ranges between one day to thirty days. The institute has responded to the issues related to ENRM through adopting a comprehensive strategy involving:
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Training of master trainers for enabling them to train other community members at the local level
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Introduction and orientation to improved appropriate technologies
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Imparting knowledge and expertise to enable them to benefit from new and appropriate technologies
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Establishing strong and productive linkages for extending outreach of government and other line departments at the local level
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A total of 22,329 participants with 7,712 female and 14,617 male have been trained under the programme till June 2004.
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Training for Livestock Specialist
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Livestock is an important sector of agriculture in Pakistan, which makes 37% of value added agriculture and about 9% of GDP. The role of livestock in earning a livelihood may be realized from the fact that 30-35% of the population is engaged in livestock rearing.
Livestock yield in Pakistan is very low as compared to other developing countries. One of the main reasons that accounts for this fact is the scarcity of trained people in the country who can look after the sector and increase its production.
Livestock yield in Pakistan is very low as compared to other developing countries. One of the main reasons that accounts for this fact is the scarcity of trained people in the country who can look after the sector and increase its production.The training events carried out under the programme focus on imparting useful, practical and advanced knowledge about livestock to the community members who are willing to take up challenges for increasing production and reducing livestock losses at initial and preventive level.
In this connection NRSP-IRM has trained a total of 5,606 community activists for livestock production, first aid and disease preventive measures, out of which 4,932 were male and 674 were female community activists.
Under the programme 36,255 participants have been trained till June 2005.
IRM has adopted a multifaceted approach for developing the management and leadership skills of the community activists. The multi-layered approach serves to build not only the capacities of the activists but also enhance their skills in a step by step manner. These activists graduate from the basic short term courses to more detailed ones. The activists having acquired the training that are part of the pyramid are in a better position to play a more defined role at the Union Council level.
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| Major Training Activities for ENRM
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Bee Keeping |
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Bee Keeping (Advanced) |
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Commercial Poultry |
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Crop Seed Production & Protection |
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Cotton Protection |
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Date Post Harvest |
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Fish Farming |
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Food & Nutrition |
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Forest Nursery Raising |
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Fruit Preservation |
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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) |
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Off Season Vegetable Production & Protection |
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Orchard Development & Management |
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Organic Farming |
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Pest Scouting |
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Plant Production & Protection |
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Rice Cultivation |
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Rodent Control |
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Sloping Agriculture Land Technologies (SALT) |
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Sugarcane Growing Technology |
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Tobacco Production |
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Use of Fertilizers |
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Vegetable Production |
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Wheat Production |
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Wild Boar Management |
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NRSP-Institute of Rural Management Licensed under section 42 of the Companies ordinance 1984
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