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Expanded Economic Analyses of Senegal River: Irrigation Pumping Alternatives

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Published: 
Thursday, August 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
To make a 1984 cost-benefit analysis of irrigation pumping options in the Senegal River Valley accessible to a wider audience, this draft report expands the study's economic analysis section by including data on national costs and farmer and project benefits. The analysis, results of which are presented in a series of statistical tables, was based on a large number of variables, including differing sites, pumping options, crop choices, and both variable (fuel) and fixed (investment, depreciation, and operation and maintenance). Included is a Bakel area case study which, it is argued, demonstrates the possibility both of conducting a rigorous cost-benefit analysis even of small irrigation projects and of determining critical variables by rapid sensitivity analyses of various parameters. More needs to be done, however, before the cost-benefit analyses of the type here displayed can be used in making routine irrigation decisions.
Theme(s) & Sub-theme(s): 
Agriculture
Resource type: 
Case Study
Region & Countries: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa
Resource Scale: 
Global

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