Optimizing Watercourse Conveyance Efficiency Through Enhancing Lining Length

ADP funded project “Optimizing Watercourse Conveyance Efficiency through Enhancing Lining Length” envisages extension in lining length of 3,000 watercourses upto 50 percent. Its key objective is to enhance conveyance efficiency which in turn would result in saving of water and improvement in water productivity at the farm level.

Objective

The key development objective of the project is to enhance conveyance efficiency which in turn would result in saving of water and improvement in water productivity at the farm level.

Components

Re-activation of 2,900 Water Users Associations
Extension in lining of 2,900 already improved watercourses
Improvement of 100 watercourses of Agricultural Extension and Research Farms

Gestation Period

Five (05) years (2015-2016 to 2019-2020)

Financial Outlay (Rs. Million)

Government: 6,829.695 million
Farmers: 2,458.167 million
Total: 9,287.862 million

Location

Entire irrigated areas of the Punjab