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PUBLICATION
D'INTERÊT Title:
“Management Information System in
Groundwater Irrigation to Support Farmer Groups in North Bali, Indonesia”, (May
1998) ; Authored by :
Yvan Castaigne / Dimitri Xanthoulis / Pierre Marchand and
Dominique Buffet,
FUSAG (Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux - Belgium). This paper was presented at the
10th
Afro-Asia Regional Conference of the ICID in Bali (19-25 July 1998) and is part
of the proceedings. Abstract:
A MIS
for handling engineering and socio-economic aspects was designed to produce
intuitive maps in order to rationalize
decision-making in irrigation scheme
management.
This MIS allowed validating data existing before the project as well as
to incorporate design and information generated by the project, such as
groundwater monitoring, irrigation layout, operation parameters and crop
monitoring.
The project covers a small area with contradictory data and extremely
broken down land ownership, thus requiring the full processing power of modern
CAD/GIS packages for analysis and management.
A CAD platform coupled with a versatile GIS for external database
connectivity was chosen as input tool for mapping and engineering aspects.
Maps produced presented a consistent project background, an inventory of
existing wells and land uses.
External databases linked to the system covered water depths, salinity
and crops.
A significant output was the production of a global suitability map for
selecting appropriate drilling sites for irrigation.
Other thematic maps monitored the phytosanitary situation of citrus
orchards for defining a crop recovery strategy.
Following irrigation design, the MIS helped to simplify necessary bill of
quantity control for tendering irrigation works.
Subsequently, external software covering a range of management topics,
from human resources, information on climate, crops and soils to accounting
codes was coupled with the MIS to prepare irrigation scheduling and operation
and maintenance recommendations.
Water scheduling maps with irrigation times were produced to train the
extension staff and pump operators and to start organizing
the farmers in water
management.
A recent field evaluation has shown that the proposed irrigation
schedules have been widely accepted by the farmers.
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