Community Support Operator for the Irrigation Development Support Project (IDSP)

The objective of the IDSP is to increase yields per hectare and the value of diverse products marketed by smallholders benefiting from investments in irrigation in selected sites served by the project. These sites are located in Lusitu, Mwomboshi and Musakashi.
The project interventions will consist of a four-tier system which will be applied, in whole or in part, at each of the irrigation sites to be developed:
- Tier 1 is for smallholder farmers who wish to take up irrigated agriculture using mainly family labour.
- Tier 2 consists of larger plots of between one and five hectares, for cultivation by emerging small-scale commercial farmers or small groups of farmers, under sprinkler irrigation systems.
- Tier 3 consists of large plots of at least 60 ha under centre-pivot irrigation operated by a private company, or FarmCo.
- Tier 4 consists entirely of existing large-scale commercial farmers who will share the bulk water and other infrastructure provided under the project.