Monsoon 2022 Floods and Its Impacts on Agriculture Land Using Geospatial Approaches: A Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Pakistan

Abid Sarwar; Muhammad Ali; Shazia Gulzar; Muhammad Akmal Sardar Ali; Abdul Majid; Muhammad ismail Khan; Muhammad Yaseen; Farmanullah Khan

Authors

Abid Sarwar GIS/RS Lab Directorate General of Soil and water Conservation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali National center for excellence in Geology University of Peshawar.
Shazia Gulzar National center for excellence in Geology University of Peshawar.
Muhammad Akmal Sardar Ali GIS/RS Lab Directorate General of Soil and water Conservation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.
Abdul Majid National center for excellence in Geology University of Peshawar.
Muhammad ismail Khan GIS/RS Lab Directorate General of Soil and water Conservation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.
Muhammad Yaseen GIS/RS Lab Directorate General of Soil and water Conservation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.
Farmanullah Khan Agriculture University Peshawar.

Keywords:

Monsoon, GIS, RS, Disaster, Climate Change

Abstract

Country of Pakistan is at higher risk because of climate change. The country affected by the extreme heat wave happened in May followed by devastating flood disaster in august 2022. Pakistan faced numerous disasters in near past. Pakistan faced a very high magnitude of earthquake round about 7.6 in between 2010 and 2014, in addition in 2022 we were the victims of severe floods across the country. Such events have an adverse effect on the financial figures of the country. Floods affect the whole province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan but 09 districts were severely affected by the monsoon flood 2022. In southern districts DI khan (Dera Ismail khan) and Tank district were severely affected by the floods. In northern districts swat, Dir lower, Dir upper and some areas of District Chitral were affected. In the central Division District Nowshera, Charsadda and Peshawar were affected by the recent floods. Filed data were collected and bring them to Geospatial format for further analysis and then physically verified the damages of floods 2022. The results disclosed that in DI khan division, District DI khan and sub division DI khan recent monsoon spell damaged 1377.544215 Sq.km crop area, the cropped area damaged fully or partially in district tank and sub division tank is 270.146935 sq.km. In Peshawar division the crop land of District Charsadda were badly damaged where the sugarcane and maize crops were affected. Area calculated using GIS in district Charsadda that was damaged is 117.555732 Sq.km. In district Nowshera a total of 467.744999 and 30.081483 sq.km crop area were damaged in District Peshawar. The northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa occupies hilly area and the residents relies on agriculture practices and gardening. In Malakand division district swat was much affected by the current spell of Monsoon where 122.38179 sq.km area of main crop and orchards were damaged. Similarly, 63.603461 sq.km area of District lower Dir, 15.147068 sq.km of upper Dir and 575.678 sq.km crop land of District Chitral were hit by the floods happened in 2022.

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