Improved irrigation more than doubles rice cropping
June 21, 2011
By James Konstantin Galvez, Reporter
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday said that cropping intensity more than doubled following the expansion in irrigated rice lands across the country.
In a report, Antonio Nangel, administrator of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), said cropping intensity increased by 135 percent from May 2010 to March 2011, after irrigating a total area of over a million hectares.
Nangel said that a total of 546, 363 hectares were irrigated during the wet season from May to October 2010, while 490,153 hectares benefited from the same during the dry season from November 2010 to March 2011, for a total of 1,034,516 hectares.
From July 2010 to April 2011, NIA irrigated a total of 194,570 hectares—comprising 10,304 hectares of new areas, 150,078 hectares of rehabilitated areas, and 34,188 hectares of restored areas.
The NIA official said the agency continued to implement five foreign-assisted, 23 locally funded, three inter-agency, and seven carry-over projects. Seven of these are in Luzon, seven in Visayas, and five in Mindanao, with 19 subprojects in selected provinces.
For this year, NIA is aiming for 1,516 hectares under its Repair and Establishment of Groundwater Irrigation Project at a cost of P50 million.
Some of the NIA’s major ongoing projects include the Help for Catubig Agricultural and Advancement Project in Northern Samar, the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project in Pangasinan, and the Participatory Irrigation Development Project Phase I in various areas of the country.
The DA said it also intensified rural infrastructure build-up through the construction of irrigation systems, farm-to-market roads and tramlines; and the establishment of post-harvest facilities, trading centers, food
terminals and mariculture parks.
A total of 2,004 kilometers of roads were completed from July 2010 to April 2011.
During the first year of the Aquino administration, the DA implemented a total of 64 on-going foreign-assisted projects worth P50.5 billion. Of this amount, P25.8 billion was funded by loans, P8.9 billion by grants, and P15.9 billion by local counterparts. This was on top of 14 locally funded projects worth P7.24 billion.
Of these foreign-assisted projects, the Mindanao Rural Development Project—which covers 26 provinces and 225 municipalities—received the biggest funding of P7.5 billion.
Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/business/improved-irrigation-more-than-doubles-rice-cropping/
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