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5.2.2 Alloo Noonari – complete flood-destruction, water-scarcity and incapacity to cope Alloo Noonari is solely inhabited by the social group of the Noonari and is located in close vicinity to Ahmed Sorjho. Accordingly, in terms of the damage caused by the flood the situation presents itself similar to a large extent. Houses in the village are almost all completely destroyed; people dwell in tents, shelter boxes or in the ruins of their former residences and there is a severe lack of adequate shelter. Also here people suffered a heavy loss of livestock and are not in the position to restock. Data sources: comparison of GeoEye satellite images of February 27, 2010 and June 14, 2003 (Google Earth); GPS data gathered on February 18 and 22, 2011. Design: Martin Enzner Fig. 5.23: The scattered hamlets of Alloo Noonari Fig. 5.24 shows that the individual hamlets of the village are scattered over a larger area, Each hamlet of Alloo Noonari is named after the head of one of the resident households. There are hand pumps for access to drinking water in each hamlet, most of which were destroyed in the flood forcing people to fetch drinking water from canals or walk considerable distances to the few remaining water sources. Replacements would be 50
available locally for a small investment of only 3,000 Rs, including drilling work, but even this rather small sum is not affordable for people at the present stage. In the village centre there is a primary school for both boys and girls with only one teacher. From 49 children in the interviewed households in the age between six and 18 only 16 go to school (i.e. 33%). Five of those school-going kids also contribute to household incomes and work either on fields or as firewood collectors. Alloo Noonari does not have a dispensary, and people need to go to the nine kilometres distant urban centre (Daro Town) for medical treatment. On the market in Daro, the villagers of Alloo Noonari can buy food and household materials. Farmers can buy their seeds and fertilizer from shopkeepers in Daro. The shopkeepers in Daro are also a source for cash at varying interest rates. Source: data recorded by ZELF team, Freie Universität Berlin, February – March 2011 Fig. 5.24: Occupational structure of Alloo Noonari The backbone of rural livelihoods in the village is provided by agriculture through cultivation of wheat, rice, sugarcane, sunflowers and vegetables (cf. Fig. 5.25). Present deficiencies in the agricultural system as the major livelihood resource in the village refer to the shortage of irrigation water due to destroyed channels and high occurrence of salinisation. Much of the cultivable area in the village is not usable at the present time, and people lack the means to purchase proper seeds and fertilizer. As a consequence, heavy indebtedness to big landlords (wadera) for agricultural supplies and shopkeepers (bania, dukandar) for basic food stuff affects a majority of households. The fields are irrigated by a canal system that has been partly destroyed. Still, nearly half of the interviewed households said they have always enough water to cultivate their limited fields, while the remaining households point to a shortage of irrigation water restricting agricultural productivity. Even though some village land is owned by big landlords, a majority of the fields are owned by villagers themselves. The field size ranges from one to 30 acres (cf. Fig.5.26), the average field size is eleven acres and the median is seven acres. 51
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List of Figures Fig. 1.1: Generic t
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Page 52 and 53: their homelands in Thatta. Members
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