The project has four components: (i) Irrigation and Drainage Management (US$78.4 million); (ii) Farm Advisory and Technical Services (US$17.2 million); (iii) Project Coordination and Management (US$4.4 million); and (iv) Emergency Contingency Response (US$0 million).
The objective of the project is to increase crop yields and cropping intensity in the selected existing irrigation systems in Bago East, Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay, and Sagaing regions. This will be achieved through improved irrigation and drainage management and complementary farm advisory and technical services.
The direct project beneficiaries are all farm households, regardless of their farm size, who have access to irrigated land in selected irrigation schemes in Bago East, Sagaing, Mandalay, and Nay Pyi Taw regions. These regions have a large number of poor estimated at 34 percent of all poor in Myanmar, and they account for 80 percent of the existing dam-related irrigation systems in the country. It is estimated that the project will benefit about 25,000 farm households who have land in about 8 irrigation systems over 40,000 ha, which would span over 16 townships in the four above mentioned regions.
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