IrWa Jordan Lebanon

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• IrWa Jordan Lebanon
• Methodology for Irrigation and Fertilization
  Assessment Presentation

By Elie Abu REJAILI Adrien PEYRE

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
Project Objectives

• Contribute to increase crop productions and
  raise farmers income
• Increase irrigation efficiency and farm outputs
• Enhance cooperation on water management at
  regional and national level

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan

• Methodology steps
• Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
  practices
• Produce proven Technical Recommendations for
  optimal Irrigation/Fertigation practices
• Transfer the proven technologies to farmers

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Phase 1
• Review the existing techniques
• to assess irrigation and fertilization practices

• Easy to implement
• Locally taylored
• Workshop of technical exchange on irrigation and
  fertigation practices
• (Jordan Feb. 2007)

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Phase 1
• Review the existing techniques
• to assess irrigation and fertilization practices

• Irrigation (MREA)
• Sand filters

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Irrigation (MREA)
• Sand filters
• On field irrigation network assessment

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Irrigation (MREA)
• Sand filters
• On field irrigation network assessment
• fertilization (GTZ and MREA)
• PILazo method for N management
• Guidelines for fertilization plan

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Phase 2
• Understand the current situation
• Sample size
• Jordan 60 farms
• Lebanon 20 farms

• Technical DESCRIPTIVE and QUANTITATIVE survey of
  IRRIGATION and FERTILIZATION practices

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Open and close survey
• Irrigation
• Water sources used
• Filtration system specification
• Irrigation techniques
• Irrigation scheduling
• Leaching requirement - JO
• Irrigation material used
• Land size and slopes
• Farmers perceived problems assessment

• Technical DESCRIPTIVE and QUANTITATIVE survey of
  IRRIGATION and FERTILIZATION practices

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Open and close survey
• Fertilization
• Focus on 5 main crops
• Jordan Eggplant, Tomato, Potato, Zucchini and
  Cucumber
• Lebanon Eggplant, Tomatoes, Potato, Water melon
  and Corn

• Technical DESCRIPTIVE and QUANTITATIVE survey of
  IRRIGATION and FERTILIZATION practices

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Open and close survey
• Fertilization
• Fertilization techniques
• Crop rotation
• Quantity of manure
• Quantity of fertilizers
• Nature of fertilizers

• Technical DESCRIPTIVE and QUANTITATIVE survey of
  IRRIGATION and FERTILIZATION practices

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Technical DESCRIPTIVE and QUANTITATIVE survey of
  IRRIGATION and FERTILIZATION practices
• Conduct field MEASUREMENTS campaign

• Irrigation
• Water source flow measurement
• Systems Coefficient of Uniformity
• Operating Pressure at subunit level

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
1. Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
practices

• Technical DESCRIPTIVE and QUANTITATIVE survey of
  IRRIGATION and FERTILIZATION practices
• Conduct field MEASUREMENTS campaign

• Fertilization
• Baseline soil and water analysis
• Weekly monitoring of soil and water pH and EC
• Annual soil analysis (EC, pH, OM, macro and micro
  elements)
• Plant analysis

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan

• Methodology schedule
• Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
  practices
• From March to May 2007
• Produce proven Technical Recommendations for
  optimal Irrigation/Fertigation practices

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
2. Produce proven Technical Recommendations for
optimal Irrigation/Fertigation practices

• Phase 1
• Compare current techniques
• with
• Optimal irrigation and fertilization practices

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
2. Produce proven Technical Recommendations for
optimal Irrigation/Fertigation practices

• Common indicators
• Irrigation Uniformity ()
• Amount of applied water per crop estimated and
  measured (m3/ha)
• Quantity of fertilizers saved per crop (kg/ha)
• Water productivity (ton/m3)
• Lebanon indicator
• Intensification degree ()

• Phase 1
• Compare current techniques
• with
• Optimal irrigation and fertilization practices

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
2. Produce proven Technical Recommendations for
optimal Irrigation/Fertigation practices

• Phase 2
• Produce
• TECHNICAL
• REPORTS

• Expertises
• Irrigation Uniformity
• University of Florence
• Fertigation assessment and programation for
  adapted research program MREA GTZ European
  Expert
• Irrigation Scheduling and performance surveys
  analysis and interpretation European Expert

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan

• Methodology schedule
• Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
  practices
• From March to May 2007
• Produce proven Technical Recommendations for
  optimal Irrigation/Fertigation practices
• From June to September 2007
• Transfer the proven technologies to farmers

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
3. Transfer the proven technologies to farmers

• Farmers on-job training through on-farm
  experimentations
• Optimized irrigation systems
• Water Saving Agricultural Techniques
• Integrated fertigation practices (use of
  volumetric injector)

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
3. Transfer the proven technologies to farmers

• Demonstration of adapted irrigation and
  fertilization techniques through experimentation
  sites
• Tomato demo plot (calculation of Etc) (NCARTT)
  on-going
• Comparison between drip and sprinkler (LRA)
• Irrigation Scheduling (LRA)
• Comparison of different methods of fertilization
  management (LRA and NCARTT)
• Improved Water Saving Agricultural Techniques
  (NCARTT/LRA)

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
3. Transfer the proven technologies to farmers

• Field Days and distribution of relevant
  handouts
• Soil analysis interpretation and fertilization
  plan JO and Lb
• Dosatron calibration and stock solution JO
• O M irrigation network JO and Lb
• Filtration techniques related to drip irrigation
  JO and Lb
• Sprinkler system O M Lb
• ()

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
3. Transfer the proven technologies to extension
agents

• Staff to be trained during the project
  implementation
• In Lebanon 5 Extension Agents (LRA)
• 6 Agronomic Engineers
• In Jordan 6 Extension Agents (NCARTT)
• 2 Irrigation Engineers from IrWa
• Interns from Jordanian Universities

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan

• Methodology schedule
• Assess the farmers Irrigation/Fertigation
  practices
• From March to May 2007
• Produce proven Technical Recommendations for
  optimal Irrigation/Fertigation practices
• From June to September 2007
• Transfer the proven technologies to farmers
• From October 2007 to March 2008

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Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in
Lebanon Jordan
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