HORINO, Haruhiko

MULENGA, Barnabas

NAKAGIRI, Takao

OGINO, Yoshihiko

application/pdfThis paper provides a case study of the Sayama-ike LID and looks at the functions, roles and operation and management aspects of the scheme. Highlights of valuable lessons of irrigation practices that could be transferred and adopted are presented to enhance development of irrigated agriculture in Zambia. The Sayama-ike LID demonstrates successful features of participatory irrigation management as a non-profit making and privatized irrigation organization. The LID has remained viable and sustainable under conditions characterized by urbanization, surplus crop production owing to high labor, land and water productivity, competition for water with other sectors, decline in command area, reduction in membership and increased number of part-time farmers. This study concludes with lessons that farmer-based irrigation organizations are vital for effective implementation of irrigation programs through participatory irrigation management. But while membership should consist of farmers who have to pay membership fees, the organization's viability and sustainability is enhanced through diversifying its activities to include both irrigation and non-irrigation activities. In doing so, an irrigation organization is able to expand its revenue base. Productivity of available labor, land and water resources is enhanced not just by provision of irrigation facilities, but also through consolidation of land that ensures organized farming, efficient field operations and drainage conditions.大阪府立大学大学院農学生命科学研究科学術報告. 2003, 55, p.43-5

<Original>Lessons Learnt from the Irrigation Perspective of the Sayama-ike Land Improvement District : Irrigation Development in Zambia (I)

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