Agriculture Extension Bajuar

PROFILE OF AGRICULTURE (EXTENSION) DEPARTMENT DISTRICT BAJAUR.

BACKGROUND

Bajaur was declared a federally administrated tribal Agency in Dec: 1973 Geographically, Bajaur is a strategically located area. It adjoins Malakand Agency on the South East, Dir District on the North-West, Mohmand Agency on the South-West and Afghanistan on the North-West.

Prior to 1960, Bajuar almost remained a semi-independent territory and was being treated as an inaccessible area under the Political jurisdiction of the Political Agent, Malakand. The whole area was divided among various Khans, i.e. the Khan of Khar, the Khan of Nawagai and the Khan of Pashat etc. in 1960.

Important indicators: According to 2017 National Population Census, district Bajaur has a population of 10, 93684. The number of households in the district is 120,457. The district is predominantly rural in disposition. The census does not classify any area in the district is urban settlement.

Population	Tehsil	Tehsil Population	Households	Household Size
1,093,684	Khar	247,510	27,044	9.2
	Mamund	311,873	35,269	8.8
	Barang	76,558	10,511	7.3
	Bar Chamarkand	2,868	336	8.5
		638,809	73,160	8.7
	Nawagai	79,002	7,649	10.3
	Salarzai	268,517	28,858	9.3
	Utman Khel	107,356	10,790	9.9
		454,875	47,297	9.6

Land use Statistics.

Geographical area = 129035 Hectares

Cultivated area = 77700 Hectares

Cropped area = 70000 Hectares

Irrigated area = 17000 Hectares

Culturable waste land = 12000 Hectares

Area under forest. = 25000Hectares

Staff strength

S#	Name of post with BPS	Total	Filled	Vacant
1	District Agriculture Officer (BS-18)	1	1	0
2	Agriculture Officer (BS-17)	5	5	0
3	Agriculture Inspector (BS-11)	2	1	1
4	Field Assistant (BS-9)	24	20	4
5	Supporting staff	76	75	0
Total:-		108	102	5

Existing facilities of Agriculture Extension District Bajaur.

S#	Name of facility	Location	Covered area
1	Agri. Agency Officer office	Khar, Bajaur
	Agriculture Officer offices	1- Agri. Officer Khar 2- Agri. Officer Barang 3-Agri. Officer Salarzai 4- Agri. Officer Mamund 5- Agri. Officer Nawagai
2	Farm Services Center	1- InayatKilli, Tehsil Khar, 2- Raghagan, Tehsil Khar 3- Barang, Tehsil Barang 4- Pashad, Tehsil Salarzai 5- Loi Sum, Tehsil Khar	02 Kanal 04 Kanal 1.5Kanal 02 Kanal 02 Kanal
3	Fruit Nursery Farms	1- Sikandaro(Utman Khel) 2- Pashad (Salarzai) 3- InayatKilli (Khar)	25 Kanal 28 Kanal 40 Kanal

Area under Crops:

S.#	Crop	Area (Hectare)	Production (Tons)
1.	Wheat	34523	25410
2.	Maize	5870	7503
3.	Vegetable	1569	13098
4.	Fruit	767	5865
5.	Tomato	60	462
6.	Onion

Water Sources:

S.#	Water source	Command area (Hectare)	Area under Crop (Hectare)	Culturable waste (Hectare)
1	Talai Dam	111	81	30
2	Raghgan Dam	486	202	283
3	Water Channel	16800	12100	4700
4	Others	6500	4617	1883

Farm Services Centers (Detailed information)

S.#	Location	Area	Year of Establ-ishment	Farmers Enrollment (Nos.)	Initial Revolving fund provided (M)	Present status of Revolving Fund (M)
1	Khar	2 Kanal	2004-05	1775	1.700	11.341
2	Raghagan	4 Kanal	2005-06	755	2.000	6.928
3	Loi Sum	2 Kanal	2012-13	322	0.500	2.447
4	Pashad	2 Kanal	2014-15	323	1.000	2.262
5	Barang	1.5 Kanal	2015-16	103	1.000	1.543

Projects & Achievements 2018-19.

ADP No.	Name of Project	Project cost	Allocation 2018-19	Release	Expdtr	%age	Activity	PC-1 Target	Achieved 2017-18	Achieved 2018-19
684	170019-Promotion of olive cultivation / grafting for oil production in Bajaur Agency ADSC 18-10-2017	15.000	5.000	5.000	4.312	84%	Grafting of Wild Olive (No.)	150000	45000	50000
							Olive orchards (Acre)	20	6	7
							Grafting Tools (No.)	135	45	45
685	170020-Reclamation of culturable waste land in command area Bajaur Agency FDWP 20-09-2017	198.445	28.713	28.713	28.412	99%	Land Reclamation (acre)	2640	310	329.3
							Land Reha/Revn:(acre)	500	115	421
							Wheat seed (acre)	1570	0	1384
							Maize seed (acre)	1570	160	0
							Tomato Net Plots (acre)	235	0	4
							Fruit Orchards (acre)	680	80	168
							Imp:Olive Orchard (acre)	25	5	10
							Spray Pums (No.)	130	60	0
	New Schemes 2018-19
705	180210-Sustainable Dev. Initiative through Agri. Interventions in District Bajaur	21.000	7.448	0.000	0.000	Approved
							Wheat seed Production (Ac)	340	Scheme approved with total cost 13.080.
							Hybrid Maize Demo: Plots (Ac)	170
							Rehabilitation of existing FNFs (No.)	2
							Tool Kit Provision (No.)	450
706	180211-Promotion of Horticulture activities in District Bajaur	17.000	7.000	0.000	0.000	Not yet approved	L/Out of Fruit Orchards (Ac)	50	PC-1 submitted to competent forum for approval.
							Improved Olive Orchards (Ac)	45
							High Value Vegetable Demo: (Ac)	51
							Tomato Net/Vertical Demo: Plots (Jirab)	26
							Straw Berry cultivation (Ac)	25
							Training / Exposure Visit (No.)	06

Potential	Implements
1. There are five No. sanction posts of Agriculture officers in the District Bajaurfor smoothly execution of Agriculture activities	Four posts are vacant that ultimately impact Agriculture services position will be filled through KPPSC.
2. Huge acreage of culturable wasteland (29640 acres) in the district and need to be developed in order to make it cultivable.	In order to convert culturable wasteland into cultivable land heavy machinery (Excavator, Bull Dozers) provision is needed to develop barren land and conserve land, also huge budget will be required for this purpose.
3. A huge potential in vegetable production and need to be value added through processing.	A sufficient amount of vegetable produced in the district and need to be processed for that purpose processing units establishment and Agro-investment must be uncovered.
4. Lack of Mobility	Agricultural activities and services are mainly field based and vehicle provision is indispensable tosolve the execution problem of field activities.
5. Agriculture (Extension) Bajaur is having 05 no. Farm Services Centers and 03 Nos Fruit Nursery Farms been considered main resources of the department for the provision of Agricultural services to the farmers on their door steps.	These infrastructures mainly aimed for the provision of Agriculture services to the farmers and are in worst condition and needs rehabilitation and re-construction of existing facilities.
6. District Bajaur has a fertile land and all kind of crops like cereals, (Wheat, Maize, Rice, Barley etc), Vegetables (Tomato, Cucumber, Turnip, peas, Radish, Cauliflower, Cabbage cucurbit etc) and Fruit orchards, (Plum, peach, persimmon, Walnut, Olive, Apricot etc) could be grown if irrigation water is made available.	Out of Total cultivated area i.e. 77000 hectors only 12000 hectors area is irrigated through different sources. Therefore, establishment of water availability sources are cry of the day to the growing population diet requirement.
7. Fruit orchards development. Bajaur district climate and soil fertility level favours all kind of fruit plants and much capacity exists for peach, persimmon.Walnut,olive,plum and apricot orchard establishment in special.	For that purpose more budget may be required for the establishment of new fruit orchards as well as for the development of existing fruit nursery farms in Bajaur.