Amazing starts

The IDP small-scale irrigation schemes scheduled for implementation during the short-term will
provide new irrigation over 40,319 ha of farmland. New small-scale irrigation projects in the mediumterm will cover 40,438 ha and in the long-term will cover 46,471 ha. A total of 14 large-scale and 3
medium-scale irrigation schemes are planned for implementation during the entire program horizon of
2002–2016:
 During the short-term, the large-scale projects of Omo Ratti (for 8,700 ha of new coverage)
and most (72 per cent) of the Koga project (for 4,344 ha) will be implemented.
 During the medium-term, 4 large-scale and 2 medium-scale project will be implemented, for a
combined area of 34,236 ha; they include Alwero/Abobo (for 10,400 ha), Gode West and a
small part of Gode South (9,000 ha), Koga (1,656 ha), Megech (10,018 ha), Nagi Beach
(2,070 ha), and Azena/Ayo (1,092 ha).
 During the long-term, 11 projects will be implemented that comprise 10 large-scale and 1
medium-scale scheme and cover a new area of 71,963 ha; with an additional 21,518 ha of
large-scale schemes under the first phase of the Eastern Nile Cooperation Program.
Altogether, a total of 274,612 ha of farmland will be developed under new irrigation schemes. Of that
total, 147,474 ha will be developed under the Federal Government’s Large- and Medium-Scale
Irrigation Development Plan and 127,138 ha will be developed under the Regional Small-Scale
Irrigation Development Plan. Combined with existing irrigation networks, the countrywide total area
of irrigated farmland will be approximately 471,862 ha by the end of WSDP.