Early in 1966 the Government of the Somali Republic requested United Nations Special Fund assistance in making feasibility studies of a controlled irrigation scheme and a flood irrigation scheme in the Shebelli Valley and in developing a plan for management of the Shebelli River waters. This request resulted from the recommendation of the 1961 -66 Special Fund Project - Somalia, Agricultural and Water Surveys - that such feasibility studies be undertaken. In response to the Government's request the United Nations Development Programme (1) authorised in June 1966 a project entitled andrdquoWater Control and Management of the Shebelli River, Somaliaandrdquo. The project was assigned to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations as the Executing Agency. The Plan of Operation was signed in September 1967 and this Agency contracted with Hunting Technical Services Ltd. of U. K. to carry out the work for the project. The results of the project investigations are presented in volumes I, II and III of this report. This is the technical annex to volume II - Balad Flood Irrigation, ProjectFeasibility Report, the others being: Volume I - General Report and Volume III - Afgoi-Mordille Controlled Irrigation Project, Feasibility Report.
Early in 1966 the Government of the Somali Republic requested United Nations Special Fund assistance in making feasibility studies of a controlled irrigation scheme and a flood irrigation scheme in the Shebelli Valley and in developing a plan for management of the Shebelli River waters. This request resulted from the recommendation of the 1961 -66 Special Fund Project - Somalia, Agricultural and Water Surveys - that such feasibility studies be undertaken. In response to the Government's request the United Nations Development Programme (1) authorised in June 1966 a project entitled andrdquoWater Control and Management of the Shebelli River, Somaliaandrdquo. The project was assigned to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations as the Executing Agency. The Plan of Operation was signed in September 1967 and this Agency contracted with Hunting Technical Services Ltd. of U. K. to carry out the work for the project. The results of the project investigations are presented in volumes I, II and III of this report. This is Volume III - Afgoi-Mordille Controlled Irrigation Project Feasibility Reportthe others being Volume I - General Report and Volume II - Balad Flood Irrigation Project Feasibility Report
The volume deals with surface water and groundwater, and investigates the potential groundwater supplies for irrigation and for the use of livestock herdsman and small communities. The text of the volume is abundantly supported with figures, tables and maps and with statistical appendixes
This volume presents basic information on the botany and agronomy of tropical dicotyledonous crops In the text proper the crops are given under their plant families, which are arranged in alphabetical order. Similarly, the genera are arranged in alphabetically within the families. This seems to be preferable to group the crops the crops according to the type of commodity they produce, e.g. libre crops, oil seeds, etc.
The volume deals with land tenure conditions and agricultural economics in Somalia. A sample of economic returns to agriculture in the project area in 1963 is given, and the typical returns of banana plantations are included in the typical farming returns given for the various regions and sub-regions. The volume concludes with a detailed estimate of the total returns for all the development projects suggested. A revised recommendation for a rural development project for the improvement of traditional agriculture is given in an appendix.
The volume discusses in detail the possibilities of irrigation development on the Shabelle. River. It also examines briefly the possibilities on the Juba river Surface water supplies for human and animal consumption and the possibilities of development for small streams are investigated. An account of the topographical survey and mapping work carried out and extracts from the results of reconnaissance soil survey In the Bulo- Marerta area are included in the volume
The volume, describes the surveys carried out on agricultural production and on rangeland in the project Details are given of regional farm practices of present land use from region to region, and of recomendations for crop improvement. There are conclusions and recomendations on the potential of rangeland and its problems its development. The final chapter deals with the livestock count made during the project. Species and Ground cover characteristics of the eclological Formations are glven in anappendix
The Agriculture and water survey reports describes a United Nations Special Fund project carried out under the responsibility of FAO as the Executing Agency to help the Government of Somalia to survey the land and water resources in the area between and around the lower reaches of the Shabelle and Juba rivers and to develop a general policy and plan for improved use of these resources. br The project became operational in the spring of 1962 and was completed in the spring of 1966. An account of the objectives, work and findings of the entire project is given in this general volume. The recommendations arising from the findings of the survey are summarized, and the volume concludes with an estimate of the total returns for all the development projects proposed. A summary of the report on the FAO-Livestock Development Survey of 1966 in Somalia is included in the volume as an appendix.BR Volume in the report are:ol liGeneral report/li; liWater resources /li; liLandform and soils /li; liLivestock and crop production /li; li Engineering aspects of development/li; liSocial-economic aspects of development /li
(Extract from introduction text)Nineteen Lanforms are identified, some with subdivisions, in the first part of the volume, and the soils associated with each landform are described and discussed. landforms and soils are then discussed on the basis of the natural regions. The text concludes with a summary and recomendations. Soil profile descriptions, the methods and the results of chemical and physical soil analysis are given in the appendices.
This study is divided into three parts: brPart I deal Briefly with the characteristics of the Shebeli river as well As with the hydraulic works already completed or recommended to dispose off excess water, which is often damaging agricultural Crops. brThis first part is actually an introduction to Part II, which in turn deals with the water supplies of the huge alluvial deposits accumulated in the valley during the Pliocene and the Quaternary. The reader who is interested in more detailed information on the hydrological characteristics of this important and interesting river is referred to the Bibliography listing the many authors who have written on this subject at a greater length. br Part III is a copy of all data so far availableon wells and information on water Surveys conducted on Shabelle river Valley.
In 1954, the Government of Somaliland protectorate requested the Tanganyika Government to loan the services of an Engineer in water development in order to advise on matter of a water supply to the capital town of Hargeisa. The author of this report accordingly arrived in Hargeisa for this purpose on 23 September 1954 and after studying the problem, departed again on 6 October 1954. Specific recomendations were made before departure in terms of letter no 5/40/37 of 5 october 1954 to the Hon. the chief secretary to the Government and these recomendations are now embodied in detail in this report
An attempt has been made in this Report to describe the general geography of the Somaliland Protectorate from existing know1edge and from the results of a seven-year General Survey(1944-1950). Special attention has been paid to those aspects of geography that had not previously been sufficiently studied by research workers in the Protectorate (e.g. Time, Topography, Meteorology, General Geology, and the Ecology of nomadic stock-herding tribesmen). It is hoped that the factual material contained in the document will be of value for reference purposes to all interested in the Protectorate, of use in planning positive development and in preventing expenditure on uneconomic developmental schemes.