Using modern irrigation started as individual initiatives, then the government supported the
introduction of these techniques through the national programme for transferring to modern
irrigation that started late 2000. This programme set up to conv
ert all irrigated area, where
possible, from traditional methods to modern irrigation systems during 10 years period. The
government has issued several decisions for facilitating transfer process and ironing out the
financial and administrative constraints facing the implementation of this programme.
The research was conducted at Al- Hassaka province during the 2010 - 2011
season to study socio-economic factors and other factors affecting the decision
of wheat farmers to adopt the technology of modern irrigation and to identify
the barriers th
at limit the adoption of these techniques. Correlation and binary
logistic regression was applied for data analysis.
The results showed that 77.78% of the total farmers studied were using
modern irrigation to irrigate their wheat crops and the rest were using
traditional irrigation and this percentage is expected to increase from 77.78%
in 2010 to 95% in 2025 with an annual rate of nearly 1.15%. Sprinkler
irrigation adopted by larger percentage (63.33%) of farmers who adopted
modern irrigation techniques and followed by the developed surface irrigation
on lines (11.11%). It was observed that the high cost of the network played a
fundamental role in the lack of 42.55% of farmers to adopt modern irrigations
Statistical analysis showed that there was an inverse significant relationship
between each of independent variables (percentage of farming labor force to
total family labor force, farmer's experience) and the dependant variable
adoption of modern irrigation techniques but there was a positive significant
relationship between adoption of modern irrigation and other independent
variables such as, cereals yield, farmers education level and direction of the
farmer towards the agricultural extension.
