The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR), has launched the project “Support sustainable water management and irrigation modernization for newly reclaimed areas”.

This project will set up and test an automated water consumption monitoring and water accounting system at selected pilot areas of the newly reclaimed area. It will further develop a RS and GIS-based land development monitoring tool for use by MALR, standard processes and methodologies for field data collection, analysis and provision of agricultural extension services through farmer field schools as well as farmers-to-farmers visits and other means of technology transfer.