Fiji

Area equipped for irrigation is 4 000 ha of which 3 000 ha of irrigated land is used for rice production and 1 000 ha for production of upland crops [FJ01]. The figures refer to year 2003. The irrigated area is visible in the table below and also can be downloaded as Fiji irrigation areas in PDF or Fiji irrigation areas in Excel.No sub-national statistics on areas equipped for irrigation were available.

About 366 ha of irrigated land was assigned to locations reported to be irrigated in several reports [FJ01-FJ04]. The remaining area equipped for irrigation was assigned to cropland areas as derived from the MODIS land cover classification [FJ05].

Groundwater extractions are reported to be small but increasing [FJ02]. Based on this information percentage of irrigated area from groundwater sources was estimated at 10 percent.

References

[FJ01]: Pacific Regional Environment Programme. 2003. Pacific regional consultation on water in small island countries - country brief Fiji Islands. Pacific Regional Environment Programme, http://www.sprep.org/publication/pein\_fiji.asp, 18/08/2009.
[FJ02] U.S. Global Change Research Information Office. 1997. Final report for Fiji’s United States country studies climate change program. http://www.gcrio.org/CSP/pdf/fiji\_inven\_vuladap.pdf, 06/06/2011.
[FJ03] UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2009. Agriculture Fiji. UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development, http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/fiji/agriculture.pdf, 08/06/2010.
[FJ04] Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. 1985. Irrigation Act. http://www.paclii.org/fj/legis/consol\_act/ia131/, 27/07/2010.
[FJ05]: Modis Land Cover Group, 2009. Modis Global Land Cover. Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University. ftp://crsftp.bu.edu/modis/MOD12Q1_data/, 07/06/2010.