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Analysis of the agricultural situation in Azraq Basin
German-Jordanian Programme “Management of Water Resources”
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Repartition of irrigated crops in Jiza
(Data MOA 2010 - in dunums)
100000, 11%
1050, 1%
568, 1%
Repartition of irrigated crops in North Badia
(Data MOA 2010 - in dunums)
6500, 4%
617, 0%
20000, 22%
60000, 65%
Repartition of irrigated crops in Azraq
(Data MOA 2010 - in dunums)
4000, 4%
8518, 9%
6180, 7%
5375, 4%
34220, 22%
48320, 32%
10376, 7%
46794, 31%
73330, 80%
Olive
Grape
Other trees
Vegetable winter
Vegetable summer
Olive
Grape
Stone-fruits
Apple and pear
Other
Vegetable winter
Vegetable summer
Olive
Other fruit trees
Vegetable crop
Alfalfa
Figure 7. Repartition of irrigated crops according to MoA data 2010 in
the three areas.
4.2. Repartition of irrigation
systems
There is no detailed data about
irrigation systems used in each
farm available neither at MOA nor
in WAJ, so we could not test the
representativeness of our data
by comparing it to another data
source.
According to data collected in
the surveyed farms, most farms
adopted localised irrigation:
- in North Badia and Jiza, 100%
of farms use localised irrigation.
Irrigation systems used are quite
homogeneous: GR (drip irrigation)
on vegetables and some stone
fruit trees, and virojet (micro
sprinklers) on trees (olives and
some stone fruits). Average
efficiency of irrigation is estimated
to be 67% in North Badia and 66%
in Jiza area.
- in Azraq region, 92% of the
planted area is irrigated with
localised irrigation. 30% of the
farms - mainly small farms of less
than 50 du – still have part or the
totality of the farm irrigated with
furrow irrigation, but it concerns
a limited area. Irrigation systems
used in Azraq are much more
diversified than in North Badia
and Jiza: virojet, GR and open
tube on olive trees, virojet on fruit
trees (pomegranates, date palms
and pears), GR on grapes and
vegetables, sprinklers and central
pivot on alfalfa, and surface on co
planted farms 37 .
37 Cf Figure 5.