Desire for Greener Land

Human Environment
Cropland per household (ha)
10,000
Implementation activities, inputs and costs
Establishment activities
1. Installation of drip irrigation system
2. Farmers training
Maintenance/recurrent activities
1. Change of drippers
2. Change of sediment filters
3. Overall cleaning of the system
Land user: individual and privileged medium
scale land users
Population density: 10-50 persons/km 2
Annual population growth: 0.5% - 1%
Land ownership: individual, titled
Land use rights: individual
Water use rights: individual
Relative level of wealth: average, which
represents 70% of land users; 10% of the total
land area is owned by average land users
Importance of off-farm income: less than 10% of
all income
Access to service and infrastructure: low:
employment; moderate: health, technical assistance,
market, energy, drinking water and sanitation,
financial services; high: education
Market orientation: mixed (subsistence and
commercial)
Technical drawing
A sufficiently powerful pump provides pressurized
water into the system. Before entering the
distribution pipes, the water is cleared of silt
particles in the filters and fertilizers are added if
needed (http://www.ziraialet.com/haber).
Establishment inputs and costs per ha
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Labour
Other
100 90
- drip irrigation system: tools
2000
90
TOTAL 2100 90
Maintenance/recurrent inputs and costs per ha per year
Inputs Costs (US$) % met by
land user
Labour
Other
100 100
- drip irrigation system: tools 200 100
TOTAL 200 100
Remarks:
The main network of hard PVC pipes, pressure indicators, main distributor, and labour force are the main costs. The local wage rate is
25 US$/day.
In the calculation, it is assumed that the crop is a legume with 50 cm regular row intervals and the distance between individual plants is
of the order of 30 cm.
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