In 2019, under the lead of the General Directorate of Water Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and with the help of the Vietnam Water Partnership, a series of workshops was organised in Vietnam to define strategic actions for advancing on IWRM. The sessions brought together stakeholders from government agencies, NGOs, development partners, civil society, and research institutions to work on solutions to increase efficiency and sustainable development of water resources. The following action was defined as part of that process and identified as a priority action to be included in an action plan.
The purpose of this action is to strengthen the application of water-saving irrigation technologies for upland-crops in existing irrigation systems. It aims to achieve this goal by assessing the current status of irrigation management in Vietnam’s regions surveying the local state management agencies and farmers in the areas, and use that information to evaluate the potential for application of water-saving technologies for upland crops according to the different characteristics of the various irrigation systems across the country.
