As part of the implementation of the project of the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia "Improving the economic independence and improving the status of women in rural areas of Central Asia through access to irrigation water and infrastructure", with the spring warming, the rehabilitation of the on-farm irrigation canal "P-9-3-1" of the WUA "Ak-Chi" of the Municipal Territorial Administration "Prigorodnoy" of the of Bishkek city. This year, 125 meters of the on-farm irrigation canal were concreted with the installation of two water gates.
These works are continuation of the collaboration with Coca - Cola Bishkek Bottlers, who provided financial support.
CAREC started working with Coca - Cola Company on this particular project in 2023 in three Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
The technical work on concreting earthen canals is aimed at reducing the loss of irrigation water, reducing the process of land degradation and improving farmers' access to irrigation water in sufficient quantities.
It should be noted that last year, within the framework of the project, two sluice-regulators were built on the on-farm channel "P-9-3-1" of the AVP "Ak-Chyi" and 100 meters of the on-farm irrigation channel were concreted. Thus, the issue of providing irrigation water to more than 30 hectares of irrigated lands was resolved and the melioration condition of more than 200 hectares of irrigated lands of farmers and farms was improved.
The completed work on concreting the canal has a small volume, but it has great benefits at the local level: irrigation water provided by the municipal enterprise reaches farmers' fields in greater quantities and the yield of land increases.
Contact person - Kuban Matraimov , director of the CAREC branch in the Kyrgyz Republic, kmatraimov@carececo.org