unique asr&per revis.. - Ministry Of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives

Irrigation and Crop Sub-Sectors (continued)
PROBLEM/
ISSUE
DETERMINED
CAUSE
BROAD
ACTION(S) TO
TAKE
SPECIFIC PRACTICAL ACTION TO TAKE
2 Low crop
yields/ volume in
many irrigation
schemes/ areas
2.1 Inefficient irrigation
water use
2.1.1 Facilitate
establishment of
appropriate water
control facilities/
structures in these
schemes / areas
a) Support implementation of viable expansive small holder irrigation interventions. Thus:
i) Facilitate and support rehabilitation and expansion of Dakawa Irrigation Scheme; and also include
the undeveloped 1,000 ha; plus the adjacent schemes (Mkindo expansion, Diongoya and Hembeti).
The entire area offers big opportunity for small/medium scale farmer economic empowerment for very sizable
households.
(This could be one investment package if well cast. It could in addition serve as an intensified field laboratory & demonstration
for irrigated crops (not just rice) research. Farmers should be required to cough a small portion of the investment cost, and the
whole investment then treated as a long term loan to them . [At time of field study consultant heard there was a possibility of
funding from the Royal Government of Denmark].
ii) Implement the ‘Lower Moshi Integrated and Rural Development Project’ – expands Lower Moshi irrigated area; brings in
the traditional irrigated areas of Mandaka, Kaloleni, Soko and Miwaleni; and also will controls destructive floods; and add
power to national electricity grid! Beneficiaries should contribute & all the scheme to be loan to them).
ii) Rehabilitate and expand Ruvu Irrigation Scheme to bring in the over 2,400 ha not yet developed.
Here is an opportunity for big rice production (covering some 3,200 ha), with assured market close by (Dar es
Salaam and Zanzibar; and even to export markets –Comoro, Middle East and in SADC countries). It is also a big
employment window for youth, some of whom are now idling in Dar es Salaam. The entire scheme area to be for
small holder production of rice and possibly some vegetables. An area should be set aside for research
demonstration and training of extension workers and farmers. Beneficiary to contribute part of the investment; and
the entire investment be long term loan the farmers’ association.
iii) Improve irrigation (and drainage) facilities in on-going viable smallholder irrigation schemes
2.2 Low level of input use 2.2.1 (As for 1.2.1 to
1.2.4, above)
2.3: Use of poor, inefficient, 2.3.1 (as for 1.3.1
burdensome farming above)
equipment/ tools & facilities
As per under 1.21 to 1.2.4 above
As per under 1.3.1 above
2
.4: Depressed crop prices
received by farmers (farmgate
prices) – farmers not
encouraged to produce more
2.4.1 (as per 1.4.1 to
1.4.3 above)
As per under 1.41 to 1.4.3 above
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