Abstract
The country Ethiopia is situated in East Africa and hence agriculture is the base for peopleA¢Â€Â™s basic fulfillment and the country is abundant by water resource. Even if we have ample amount of water still now rain-fed agriculture is more practiced than irrigation water application. Irrigation can be defined as the application of water to the soil for increasing the moisture content which is important for plant root-growth and development to prevent stress that may cause reduce the amount of yield as well as the quality of the crops. There is positive relation between irrigation service and poverty alleviation. The availability of water for irrigation in community helps to improve food security. It increases the potential for producing more food consistency in drought prone and food insecure areas. Small scale irrigation farming has played a vital role in enabling food production by lowering the risk of crop failure and sustaining households and food security status. Extension works should be done to aware the importance of irrigation system and the involvement of the local farmers could be include when the system is going to be efficient. Government and other related policy formulation organizations should focused on decentralized system among the users. Irrigation is more effective if all users and non-users participate actually during the planning, implementing, maintaining, monitoring and evaluating works. The participation of the stakeholders is pillar during the management and sustainability of the irrigation structures
Highlights
Small scale irrigation farming has played a vital role in enabling food production by lowering the risk of crop failure and sustaining households and food security status
The historical back ground of the country Ethiopia shown that agriculture is the dominant activities to sustain rural community’s life and the base for people’s basic fulfillment
Within a wide range of application it is better to determine the merits of an irrigation system in a certain community are to be economically stable, social acceptable, environmentally attractive [23]
Summary
The historical back ground of the country Ethiopia shown that agriculture is the dominant activities to sustain rural community’s life and the base for people’s basic fulfillment. From the very beginning irrigation can be defined as an artificial application of water to soil to create the moisture content which is suitable for the growth and development of crops and leach the salts if there is an accumulation of salts in the area that to be irrigated [2] This activity is done by human to apply water to the crops throughout considering the agro ecology of the irrigated area for improving the rural population’s way of life and it has contributed to be agriculture is the driving force of an Ethiopian’s economy. It is familiar to us small scale irrigation can be performed with in a house hold level while large scale irrigation project would be too costly and needs detailed engineering studies It argued that without an organized water management program on those basins there would be no predictions’ of irrigation development at all. Extraction of ground water requires cost and skilled human power depending on the ground water table
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