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Multiple use of water for opium eradication
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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Mahinda KurukulasuriyaShifting cultivation practised communities do not have sufficient land for irrigated paddy growing. Subsistence farming
in highlands does not generate income: hence cash crop is the opium poppy cultivation. Communities engaged in shifting
cultivation do change locations of villages periodically, in search of fertile land. These communities do not have access
to: primary health care, water and environmental sanitation, schools, agriculture extension services etc. and high level of
opium addiction persists amongst inhabitants. Provision of a pure and adequate supply of water coupled with environmental
sanitation, introduction of primary health care with a first-aid box with medicines and community mobilization along
with participatory approaches to development have changed the life styles and improved living standards. Use of water
for: drinking purposes, environmental sanitation, power extraction for house lighting, for lift irrigation, including paddy
cultivation and de-husking of paddy have tremendously contributed to rural development and eradication of opium poppy
cultivation.
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KURUKULASURIYA, M., 2006. Multiple use of water for opium eradication. IN: Fisher, J. (ed). Sustainable development of water resources, water supply and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 32nd WEDC International Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13-17 November 2006, pp. 255-258.Publisher
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