Congo

Area equipped for irrigation and area actually irrigated was 2000 ha in year 2003 [CG01]. No sub-national statistics on the extent of irrigated lands have been available.

Full/partial control irrigated area is 217 ha and located near the cities of Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire. The remaining area equipped for irrigation is lowland sugar cane cultivation near Nkayi [CG02]. Small-scale cultivated land near Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire and large-scale agriculture near Nkayi was digitized from satellite imagery [CG03]. The irrigated area estimated that way is visible in the table below and also can be downloaded as Congo irrigation areas in PDF or Congo irrigation areas in Excel.

In 1993 all irrigation was from surface water [CG02].

References

[CG01]: UNECA. 2003. Republic of Congo - National report on water resources development 2003.
[CG02]: FAO. 2005. AQUASTAT country profile Congo. FAO, Rome, Italy.
[CG03]: Earth Satellite Corporation. 2004. Landsat GeoCover (2000/ETM+) Edition Mosaics, tile 071-677. Sioux Falls, USA, USGS (available at http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080).