Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering

Department of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering, Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia

Publications

• Review   
  Review of Irrigation Practice in Ethiopia, Lessons from Israel
  Author(s): Mulatu Kassa and Tesfa Gebrie Andualem*
  
  This report tried to address why Ethiopia is suffered from low agricultural production blessed with high potential of irrigation water resource, irrigable land, labor and suitable climate and why Israel is very effective in irrigated agriculture by having very low arable land, water resource, and with adverse climatic condition. What lessons should Ethiopia share from Israel in irrigated agriculture to improve the economic and social development of Ethiopia? Various research papers were reviewed in this paper and it indicated that if Ethiopia want to be effective in irrigation and brings its population in to food security it could take lessons from Israel’s long-term struggle and effort on the management of its irrigation water. Ethiopia should have to develop its own solutions to serve the needs of farmers as well those of broader economic development. Ethiopia has an important.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/idse.2020.9.242

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