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Groundwater Irrigation and Flood Rehabilitation Project

The Terai region has good potential for agricultural development and a reasonably robust marketing and communications network. Agricultural development of the region will help feed Nepal’s rapidly rising population. This project’s aims were to raise crop yields, improve farmer’s incomes and increase food security for the poor by providing irrigation systems. It also set out to repair damage to existing irrigation systems that were hit by the floods of July and August 1993, and to restore livelihoods to people living in the flooded areas.

The project offered an opportunity to research and test possible technical and institutional options for efficient and equitable development of groundwater irrigation.

Source: IFAD

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Contact information
Ms Kati Manner
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592790
Fax: +39 0654593790
k.manner@ifad.org
Facts and figures

Total cost: US$13.0 million

IFAD loan: US$9.9 million

Duration: 1994-2001

Geographical area: five districts in the Eastern Terai: Rautahat, Sarlahi, Siraha, Saptari and Sunsari, and adjacent districts badly affected by floods

Directly benefiting: 25,000 households

Status: closed

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