Groundwater Development for Small Scale Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Technology for Small Scale Groundwater Irrigation in Northern Nigeria

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4619
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Carter, Richard
Date:	1991
Agency:	Overseas Development Institute, London
Series:	Irrigation Management Network Paper 5
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4619
Sector:	Agriculture Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	agriculture irrigation
Abstract:	"In northern Nigeria dry season vegetable cultivation has been practised for generations in the fadamas or seasonally wet bottom lands (Carter et al, 1983). These fadamas range from localised depressions to major river flood plains. Water is lifted from perennial rivers, water holes and wells by the locally constructed counterpoised device known as the shaduf."

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