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Analysis of the agricultural situation in Azraq Basin
German-Jordanian Programme “Management of Water Resources”
Comparing data from different census shows indeed the fast extension
of agricultural land in Azraq region (it concerns only the area around
Azraq and its different sub regions):
Area
(region)
In 1980, most wells were still
manually operated and only few
60000
Total were artesian Non wells, most of
Type of Well 481
number
Consumption
(MCM) Wells Wells
which existed
working
Working
WAJ
in Al-Dughayla
50000 of wells
area. Typically, two-thirds of a
Legal agricultural well
304 farm is 6.3 planted with 59 trees (mainly 245
40000
Illegal agriculture well
561 olive trees, 13.2 grapes, 325 pomegranate, 236
and some stone fruit trees). The
Private
229
governmental well
13 0.7 3 10
UNDP
30000 remaining third of the farm is
117 Governmental well for drinking water 20 planted 16.9with vegetables 4 (mainly 16
MOA
20000
Wells for herds in remote areas 11 with melon, ? onion, 5garlic and 11 winter
crops: wheat, barley, as well as
Total
10000909
37.1 391 518
some alfalfa). In 1990, both manual
and artesian wells were still used.
0
Um-El massael, Al-Elawat and Um-
1980 1996 2009
Swaweneh are three locations that
were created recently (after Working 1994)
but already represent 30% Wells of the
cultivated land in Azraq region.
289
3
11
5
Al-Awshaq
Ain-El-Beida
Al-Dughayla
Al-Ratami 26
Azraq-
Al-Janobi
Um-El
Massael
Al–Elawat
Um-
Swaweneh
Total
No
of
farms
Area in
1980
(du)
Average
size farm
(du)
No
of
farms
Area in
1994
(du)
Average
size farm
(du)
No of
farms
2009
Area in
2002
(du)
Average
size farm
(du)
Data MoA 1980 18 Data UNDP 1996 19 Data WAJ 2009 20
14
9
49
26
1203
835
5990
426
86
93
122
16
38
20
80
45
1751
1338
20451
2060
46
67
256
46
49
45
182
99
2174
3597
26200
2600
44
80
144
26
19
0
0
0
103
315
0
0
0
7566
17
73
46
0
0
0
191
837
0
0
0
24686
18
129
55
95
20
16
512
980
14151
1375
770
51847
18
149
69
48
101
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Total number Non Working
Figure 3. Constant increase Type of the of number Well of farms and total cultivated
land in the Azraq region over the years despite the prohibition of of wells Wells
founding new farms (different sources).
Legal agricultural well
345
56
18
Illegal agriculture well
6
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Ministry of Agriculture, Annual Report, Wael Sartawi, 1980.
19 The Azraq Oasis Conservation Project: JOR/1992/G311996/.
20 Communication from Mohammad
Private Al-Hawi,
governmental Water Authority
well of Jordan (2010) about
11 data in 2009.
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Private agricultural wells with permits 5
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