Expanding artificial drainage for irrigated agriculture

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Creating comprehensive drainage scheme
2. Broadening irrigation water development

1. Levelling land
2. Developing drainage for irrigated lands in arid and semi-arid regions
3. Creating watercourses

1. Providing water for agriculture
2. Procuring modern irrigation equipment
3. Planting currently unused fields
4. Managing water resources for sustainable rural development
5. Improving farm irrigation systems
6. Expanding water and soil management research for irrigated and rain-fed areas
7. Developing small scale irrigation to conserve water
8. Building community irrigation system

1. Testing soil
2. Financing irrigation
3. Consolidating land

1. Artificiality