Global Map of Irrigation Areas

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Irrigation potential for Bosnia Herzegovina was estimated at 74 000 ha, but only 4630 ha are equipped for irrigation [BA01]. The irrigated area of the country is concentrated in three irrigation systems:
- Ljubuški and Ljubuški Polje (2800 ha),
- Trebinje and Trebinjsko Polje (650 ha), and
- Dubrava Plateau [BA02].

The boundaries of the irrigation systems were digitized from a map published in [BA03]. Irrigated area was assigned to all areas within the digitized polygons that were classified in the Corine 2000 land cover database for Europe [BA04] as non-irrigated arable land (211), fruit trees and berry plantations (222), complex cultivation patterns (242) or land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation (243).

References

[BA01]: Civil Society Promotion Center. 2002. Environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002. Report available online at: http://enrin.grida.no/htmls/bosnia/bosnia2002/index.html, 07/07/2006.
[BA02]: Bosna-S Oil Services Company. 2002. Bosnia and Herzegovina Small Scale Commercial Agricultural Development Project. Environmental assessment. Report available at: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/, 07/07/2006.
[BA03]: World Bank. 2003. Bosnia and Herzegovina Small Scale Commercial Agricultural Development Project. Project appraisal document. Report No: 25519-BiH, available at: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/, 07/07/2006.
[BA04]: EEA. 2005. Corine land cover 2000 - vector by country (CLC2000), version 1. (available at: http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=667).