Rehabilitating the Kuç-Bilisht Irrigation System
Even the best land needs efficient irrigation and drainage to make the most of its agricultural potential. Farmers in the villages of Kuç and Bilisht, in southeast Albania, know this only too well. For the past 20 years they were unable to make best use of their fertile land, frustrated by an irrigation system being in a very poor condition.
€181,000 investment
Determined to help, TAP began discussions with local authorities and the Ministry of Agriculture to ensure that its support was aligned with their own efforts to assist agriculture in the region.
Today, more than 2,000 people in 470 households are reaping the benefits of TAP’s intervention. Two kilometres of new irrigation and drainage canals have been dug, improving the potential productivity of more than 130 hectares of arable land.
In July 2018, the irrigation system was handed over to the municipality of Devoll, which is now responsible for its maintenance.