Hadejia Valley Irrigation Scheme (HVIS)

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The Hadeja Valley Irrigation Scheme (HVIS), Hadeja, Hadeja Local Government Area of Jigawa State is one of the projects under the Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Development Authority. It consist of a barrage with storage capacity of 11.4 million cubic meters of water with its input coming from the water released from the upstream Challawa and Tiga Dams into the river system. Its potential irrigable area is 25,000 hectares. It is a gravity irrigation system with north and south main canals. The north main canal, which is completed and operational, is about 27km long covers 12,500 and 5,300 hectares. The identified rehabilitation and the expansion needs of the project is being addressed under the TRIMING Project.