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The Association for Strengthening the Skills of Farmers’ Organizations (ARCOP) received funding from the Ministry of Water and Environment to implement the Phase II Integrated Water Resources Management (PGIRE) project in the village of Moanega, in the commune of Absouya, in the Central Plateau region.
The Moanega site has an irrigated area of 2 hectares. 0.5 hectares are for drip irrigation and 1.5 hectares for sprinkler irrigation. This developed plot will help reduce the suffering of the people. According to Adolphe Kafando, rural engineering engineer in charge of the technical aspects of the project, the project can produce 130 tons of vegetables per hectare per year in dry and wet rural areas.
“The agricultural greenhouses we installed are meant to encourage producers to adopt this technology, as it will allow us to double our production. When we talk about a yield of 130 tons per hectare, we could reach 260 or even 300 tons per hectare per year if it were in a greenhouse,” the technician pointed out.
Adolphe Kafando, Project Leader
The association has set up a wire fence around the site. There is a water source with a pump installed and a borehole connected to a polyethylene water tank. The polyethylene water tank provides people with a fountain with three taps. There is a basin called a buffer basin that allows the sprinkler system to operate to irrigate about 1.5 hectares of agricultural production land.
Water basin created by ARCOP
“We also have a 10 square meter greenhouse as an experimental site to prove that we can double the yield. We have a solar field consisting of about 16 photovoltaic modules. We have three ponds that serve as drinking troughs for the animals in the village and animals from other villages. This helps reduce the pressure around the Qiga Dam. With this site, we hope to make people realize that we can produce on a small area and have a higher yield if the site is laid out better than what they are used to. This will help protect nature and reduce water use,” explained the village engineering engineer.
The project will resettle 525 women and 150 men who were developing the Ziga Dam riverbank in the development area.
“In Abusua, we saw a committed technical association in theory and practice that implemented initiatives to protect different dams, including the Ziga Dam and the Abusua Dam, by building threshold works. They built a smart system from drilling to production on two hectares of land,” said Minister Roger Barrow.
Roger Barrow, Minister responsible for water and the environment
The minister promised that if the association continued to work with the same motivation, the association would provide more subsidies.
Nayamba Sawadogo, a beneficiary of the project and also in charge of women affairs in Moanega, said the project had just removed “a thorn in their side” because after the Ziga Dam evacuation, women and youths were left jobless. “We no longer have any activities. Our children started leaving the village to look for work elsewhere. However, currently the country is going through a security crisis. No one wants their children to go somewhere else because they don’t know what they will become. Today, thanks to the project, our children will be able to come and we will resume our activities. Families will now be able to get rid of vulnerability thanks to the project,” said a beneficiary of the project.
Beneficiaries of the Nayamba Sawadogo Project
She said she was satisfied with the work done. To her, it demonstrated the association’s commitment to helping them escape poverty.
Rama Diallo
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