Assessement of Water Use Management of Community-Based Irrigation Schemes in Koga Irrigation Development, Amhara Region, Baher Dar, Ethiopia
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2013-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Irrigation contributes significantly in increasing availability of farm products, income of
households and in reducing poverty. It is one approach to address the weak performance of
agriculture sector due to lack of adequate rainfall, variabi lity and duration of rainfall. Koga
Irrigation Project is one of the projects designed to satisfy basic needs of society and to ensure
self sufficient in food production. It is community-based large scale irrigation. Managing such
large scale irrigation scheme is a challenge. This study is aimed to assess and identify the factors
affecting the successful implementation and Water Use Management problems of communitybased
irrigation schemes and to indicate and recommend solutions to the problems. Based on the
identified problems I set the objectives: to assess the current community-based irrigation water
use management and its impacts on the irrigation development; to examine the constraints and to
identify the factors affecting the successful implementation of community-based irrigation
development; and finally to identify the type of interventions that should be taken to sustain the
irrigation schemes. Based on the objectives appropriate methodologies are designed to
investigate them. Lack of access to market, loss of water when irrigating, lack of awareness on
irrigation were identified. Moreover, lack of training related to irrigation, low price for the
products, crop disease and the high cost of inputs are the constraints encountered in the irrigation
schemes. It is recommended that Koga irrigation project office should build strong institution
accommodated well experienced marketing expert or a group of experts is/are recruited that can
perform market assessment and create market ties with different governmental and public
organizations such as hospitals, super markets universities and colleges; try to install agroprocessing
firms in/around the scheme by organizing the union, taking credit from development
banks such as ADB. Farmers should get continuous irrigation, land and water use management
training and must be aware of the schemes and they should be informed to safeguard and to
develop sense of ownership.
Key Words: Water Supply, Water allocation, Water conflict, Water distribution, Water
management, Community-based irrigation, Cash crops, Food grains, Market in/ormation "ystem,
Market oriented! proposed crops
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Water Supply, Water allocation, Water conflict, Water distribution, Water management, Community-based irrigation, Cash crops, Food grains, Market in/ormation "ystem, Market oriented! proposed crops