| Grantee: Key of Life Association |
| Start Date: 7/2019 |
| End Date: 12/2021 |
Objectives:
Preserving agricultural land from deterioration, rationalizing irrigation water and maximizing its use, by lining canals to conserve irrigation water, energy and land in the Armant Center. |
Accomplishments:
- Lining 4000 linear meters of watering cans for 350 small farmers.
- Improving irrigation systems to serve 250 feddans in a number of villages in the Armant Center.
- Providing an area of 60 carats of agricultural land on both sides of the mesas that have been lined.
- Providing 9000 cubic meters of irrigation water per month.
- Saving the number of hours of irrigation, thus saving time, effort and the use of diesel.
- Ensuring that irrigation water reaches the ends of the canals, in order to achieve fair water distribution among farmers.
- Increasing the awareness of 400 farmers of the importance of protecting agricultural land from deterioration, and of the importance of rationalizing irrigation water.
- Building the capacities of farmers in forming water user associations, to increase their capacity to manage the available water resources.
- Providing irrigation water for about 300 acres of agricultural land.
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Communities:
3 villages in the Armant Center (Al-Marais, Hajer Abu Daghar, Hajer Al-Marais) |
Partners:
Agricultural administration, irrigation management, agricultural associations, civil associations |
| Beneficiaries: 350 direct beneficiaries of small farmers, 400 women of farmers' families |
