Irrigation Innovation Consortium
With world water resources under tremendous pressure, advancing how irrigation is managed is crucial. IIC supports successful integration of precision- and conservation-oriented practices
Irrigation can lead to agricultural yields two to three times as great as those of rainfed agriculture, allowing for investment in irrigation systems to be recouped because higher-value or higher-yielding crops can be produced.
Low-operating cost gravity fed irrigation methods such as furrow, basin, and micro-basin may be used where water can be distributed in large qualities using height differences from source to field but, if pumping is required, access to energy, pipelines must be installed to transport the water and operational costs are higher.
The financing gap for SSI is significant, but it is expected that a substantial proportion of the 500 million-person global market represented by smallholder farmers could benefit from introducing irrigated crop production and increase their net incomes if financially viable projects can be developed.
In Africa, total cultivated area is estimated to be 271 million hectares, only 18.6 million hectares of which is irrigated. This includes all forms of irrigation, water harvesting, and drainage control.
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