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<strong>African</strong> <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Development</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2006</strong>ever, more than one million hectares of irrigationby aspersion have been reported, most of it beingconcentrated in the North (table 8.17 - Libya,Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia), Zimbabwe, South Africaand, to a lesser degree, in Kenya and Zambia.In relative terms, aspersion represents the mostTable 8.16: Subregional Distribution of <strong>Water</strong> Management Methods in AfricaSubregionFull orpartialcontrolTotal irrigationNorthern5 610(95%)Sudano- 2 263Sahelian (79%)Gulf of 307Guinea (22%)Central119(25%)Eastern428(65%)Islands 1 105(I.O.) (100%)Southern1 645(90%)Total11 477(81%)Source: FAO, 1995Spate irrigationIrrigationEquippedwetlands/valley bottomsOthercultivatedwetlands/valley bottomsFloodrecessioncropping‘000 ha ‘000 ha ‘000 ha ‘000 ha ‘000 ha ‘000 ha ‘000 ha305(5%)212(7%)-(-)-(-)-(-)-(-)-(-)517(4%)-(-)9(-)163(11%)2(-)6(1%)-(-)-(-)180(1%)5 915(100%)2 484(86%)470(33%)121(25%)434(66%)1 105(100%)1 645(90%)12 174(86%)widely used technique in Botswana, Zimbabweand South Africa, which benefit from a relativelylong tradition in this field. Finally, the most importantareas under micro-irrigation are concentratedin Egypt and South Africa (FAO, 1995).-(-)97(4%)193(14%)352(74%)222(34%)-(-)182(10%)1 046(7%)-(-)296(10%)730(53%)3(1%)-(-)-(-)9(-)1 038(7%)5 915(100%)2 877(100%)1 393(100%)476(100%)656(100%)1 105(100%)1 836(100%)14 258(100%)Totalas% oftotalas % ofcultivatedland41.5 24.820.2 12.19.8 4.03.3 3.94.6 2.97.7 40.312.9 8.1100.0 9.9Table 8.17: Indicators of irrigated agriculture in the Northern Africa SubregionMauritania Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt SudanIrrigated area (100ha) 40 1100 450 400 350 5800 1880Ha per 1000inhab 15 36 14 40 62 85 56Source: Draft Synthesis of AWDR National <strong>Report</strong>s of Northern Sub Region.Irrigated Crops and Rate of Use ofEquipped AreasThe information on agricultural equipped areagiven in figure 8.8 refers to physical areas, whichis not the case for irrigated crops, which are measuredin terms of harvested areas. The same plotcan thus be counted several times if it is used forseveral crops in a year. The figures on crops inwater managed areas are very incomplete and donot allow the establishment of statistical tablesby country showing the distribution of the majorcrops under water management in Africa.208

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