Abstract
A study to determine facrors influencing sustainability of smallholder irrigation schemes was carried our a! Buleya Malima, Southern Province, 7_nnzbia. These factors included technical and socio-economic factors. found Out that the technical factors were 26.5, 64.5 and 9.2 percent for application efficiency, tailwater ratio and deep percolation, respectively, indicating that farmers wasted water mainly through tailwater runoff.From socio-economic point of view, the study indicated that the scheme lacked (i) farmer participation in designing and planning operation of the scheme (ii) managerial ability and innovativeness to form their own viable organisation: and (iii) formal training in technical operations of irrigation, infrastructure and new agricultural practices. Due to these shortcomings, sustainability of irrigated agriculture at Buleya Malima could be hampered.
Recommended Citation
R, M. (1998). SUSTAINA BILITY OF IRRIGATION SCHEMES FOR SMALL-SCALE FARMERS: A CASE STUDY OF IRRIGATION SCHEME AT BULEYA MALIMA, GWEMBE VALLEY, ZAMBIA. Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET), 22(2), 10-133. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.52339/tjet.v22i2.273
Publisher Name
University of Dar es Salaam