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Titre : Solar Energy for irrigation in Dar Haitham (Yemen)

Pays : Yemen

Numéro projet : YEM/SGP/OP6/Y8/CORE/CC/2023/02

Domaine : Climate Change Mitigation

Date : en cours en 2023

Bénéficiaire : Dar Haitham water users society

Présentation
Delta Tuban is the main agriculture zone of Lahj Governorate. It has a fertile agricultural land that is built over centuries from Wadi Tuban flood sedimentation through its two branches being Wadi ?Kabeer ? (major) and Wadi ?Sagheer ? (minor). Agriculture communities faced a great challenge in recent years due to high cost of irrigation due the fuel prices ? raise. Communities are starting gradually to use solar powered pumping systems for irrigation. In the area there exist several water canals diverting flood water into the agriculture land. Each canal has got a water user society that managing flood irrigation through each canal locally named as ?Oubr ?. This project aimed to assist 26 farmers groups to obtained solar powered and dripping systems for irrigation. The total agriculture land benefited from this project is 574 Fedan owned by 25 farmers ? families with 776 inhabitants being 386 male and 390 females. Further, a large labor community are benefiting from the ongoingagriculture activities wen participation in farm labors. The reviving of traditional crops sharing in exchange for irrigation will be used for project sustainability. The project will benefit the environment through elimination of 511 tons of Carbon dioxide (C)O2) annually. Further the project will enable farming families to save US$ 1211/family/year in their farms operational cost.

Financement
Grant Amount (GEF) : US$ 41,169.00
Co-Finanshing Cash : US$ 118,000.00
Co-Finanshing in-Kind : US$ 1,800.00

GEF Small Grants Programme