Chapter -5

Findings, Conclusions and

Recommendations
The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the research report and suggest research,
conclusions and recommendations made as an outgrowth of this study. The main aim of this
study was to asses ‘’ The Role of overgrazing in Vulnerability in Village Reshun, District
Chitral’’ A descriptive study was adopted to achieve objectives of this study. A structure
questionnaire was use as a data collection tool.

FINDINGS
 Due to overgrazing different type of disasters occurred in study area like flash flood,
land sliding, and soil erosion.
 From government side strong prohibition the rearing of cattle’s in the targeted area.
 52% people replied that many household are damage due to land sliding per year.
 Community people left their cattle’s on higher pasture land for five months.
 Different stakeholders Banned on local community not to rear cattle’s.
 Community peoples effect economically directly and indirectly by destroying the cattle’s.
 Awareness programed and training ware arrange by different organizations regarding
overgrazing.
 Community people left their cattle’s on higher pasture land for 5 months.
 100% respondent replied that afforestation lessen the occurrence of different disasters.
 According to research studies it has been proved that whenever the single hair particle
Of goat falls on glacier that melt almost 5cm of ice cube.
 The ordered is issued by government according to this ordered no one rear more than three
cattle’s.
 5.1 Conclusions
Reshun village is located in the north of main town Chitral at a distance of 55km between 36.917N,
longitude 72,67E. Reshun village in district chitral was my research area. The recent

Flood in last July 2015 was badly affect this beautiful region, so my research topic was “The role of
overgrazing in vulnerability”. According to my research studies it come in to notice that overgrazing is
a main reason for disaster in that area. According to

Research most of the people income source is depend on cattle’s rearing round about 30% cattle’s in
Reshun village and due to rearing of these cattle’s the area faced a lot of problem like flash flood, land
sliding these disasters all sector of livelihood in that area. Overgrazing leads to an increase of soil
compaction and soil crust compaction and soil crust formation and a decrease of biotic crust and
perennial grass cover (Muir 2010).Overgrazing is caused by having too many animals on grazing land
or by not properly controlling grazing activity of the animals. Overgrazing has negative impact on
land.

The study reveals that most of the respondents have lack of basic education regarding overgrazing.
The study also reveals that there is no proper legislation regarding land use to stop rearing of cattle’s.
The study further disclosed that there was a conflict between two groups one ware in favor of rearing
of cattle’s while the other group was in opposition of it. This delegation leads to a court and the court
dissolve the case in that group which were not in favor of rearing of cattle’s (July 17, 2014). I
personally interviewed the people of my study area about overgrazing which is also a part of my
research in audio form. The concern organization of FOCUS, and local government also help me in
regards of report.

5.2 Recommendations
Firstly the government sector should have to handle this problem to aware people about negative
consequences of overgrazing. Those peoples should be trained according to their abilities in small
business sector, professional sector, agriculture sector( plantation) so that their economy would be in
these sector in spiting of rearing cattle’s here and there. Secondly the NGOs should have to keen
observation on this events and have to play their role to overcome these problems. The local
community should have a seasonal plantation in their areas so that there will be a positive impact upon
this events. This area annually suffer from land sliding and Flood disaster. There should be certain
resources available to them. The provisional government is responsible to provide required
equipment’s and logistic support and also provide required funds and trained man power for the
elimination of major constrain of concerned department . The law passed by the government not to
rear more than 3 cattle should be implemented and exercise practically.
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