Table 4
Measures used to cope with IWRM (%).
Measures Ranking
First Second Third
Developing water-saving cash crops 35.4 19.1 8.7
Reducing the frequency of field crop irrigation 34.9 34.0 18.1
Adopting simple water-saving surface irrigation methods 15.1 17.9 13.0
Abandoning a portion of farmland 12.5 13.5 8.9
Transferring labor force to non-agricultural work 1.8 2.8 4.8
Introducing drought-tolerant crop varieties 0.3 0.5 3.3
Developing animal husbandry