IRRIGATION SCHEMES
Irrigation schemes at Manantali - Malì and Boghè - Mauritania

Client:                   Organisation pour la mise in valeur du fleuve Senegal (OMVS) - Ministere de l'Agriculture du Malì -

                               Financing by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Services:             Feasibility study. Basic, preliminary and final design.

Period:                 1982 - 1988

Contract value:  €  413,000

The project:

As the title reveals, two distinct projects were involved under the same contract. Both projects were aimed to implement irrigation schemes in local agriculture with the scope of increasing annual harvest so that agriculture is no longer dependent on the desultory floods.

In the case of Malì, the areas in question are those along the Bafing River (an affluent of River Senegal), down stream of the Manantalì dam, under construction at the time of the project,  for a total extension of approx.  3.000 ha.  In Mauritania the areas concerned are located in the Boghè plains, on the right banks of River Senegal.

The engineering services awarded to TECHNITAL included: preliminary research and investigations, mathematical simulation models, topography, hydrological studies, geological surveys, laboratory testing, preliminary and final design of 3.000 ha irrigation scheme, tender documents.

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