The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) has inaugurated the newly rehabilitated Malatgao River Irrigation System (Malatgao RIS) in Palawan, which is part of the National Irrigation Sector Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (NISRIP) that is being funded through a grant from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) has inaugurated the newly rehabilitated Malatgao River Irrigation System (Malatgao RIS) in Palawan, which is part of the National Irrigation Sector Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (NISRIP) that is being funded through a grant from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Costing 189.36 million to build, the project is expected to provide timely and reliable irrigation service to 3,014.73 hectares of agricultural land in the municipalities of Narra and Aborlan in Palawan, benefitting as much as 1,585 farmers and their families.
The rehabilitation works of Malatgao RIS involved three diversion dams, 25.26 kilometers of concrete canal lining, 23.77 kilometers of gravel surfacing, 42 canal structures, one drainage structure, 55 turnout structures, nine Irrigators Association (IA) buildings, and two IA offices with support facilities.
The inauguration and turnover ceremony was led by Cabinet Secretary and NIA Board Chairman Karlo Alexei B. Nograles.
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