Feasibility Study on Irrigation

The locality of Managopaya, Banate is located at the western part of Visayas and lies at 4th district of the Province of Iloilo. It is bounded in between by the Municipality of Anilao when exit to Iloilo City and Municipality of Barotac Viejo when going to Estancia. It has a cut sphere of influence of 667. 5 hectargons or roughly 5. 15 percent of the total land area of the Municipality of Banate. As such it is the smallest barangay in the municipal composing of five (6) sitios namely Proper, Baclayan, Bubog, Lumboy, Pangalatkaton and Tubod.Sitio Proper serves as the center of various economic activities and site of all government owned offices or building. Extensive smokestack ranges with uneven distribution of plateaus, swamps, and lowlands characterize the barangays topography. In terms of soil types, these ranges from loam, clay, sandy, clay loam, sandy loam, or a mixture of any of these, which are evenly distributed in the six (6) sitios of the barangay. These soil types are qualified to any kind of crop whether annual, perennial, or cash crops. TOPOGRAPIC MAP OF MANAGOPAYASOURCE NATIONAL IRRIGATION ADMINISTRATION (NIA) Based on the 2011 Census of Population, the Barangay of Managopaya recorded a cosmos level of 1328. This translates to an annual average growth regularize of 0. 9 percent for the period 2000-2011. Sitio Proper, being the urban area, registered the most number of community at 363, which is 27. 33 percent of the municipalitys total population. This was followed by Sitio Baclayan having a population of 298 or 22. 2 percent of the total populationl. The parcel share of the remaining iv (4) barangays ranged from 11-15 percent.Consequently, in the most densely populated barangay, there were approximately four (4) people in every hectare of land while in the least densely populated area there would be roughly one (1) person in every hectare of land. Basically, the municipal population is preadolescent with more than half of its populace within the age range of 1-20 years. Out of the total municipal population, 52 percent or 690 were males while 48 percent or 633 were females. The barangays current working population (age 15-64) is pegged at 396. This is relatively low considering the high number of economic dependents totaling 932.The population has a total addiction ratio of 70. Most people in Managopaya are largely Ilonggo. There are approximately 1195 people or about 99 percent who speak the dialect fluently. In terms of religious affiliation, 82 percent of the populations are Roman Catholics. 1. 1. 2 Economic using Managopaya has an agricultural area of 467 hectares, which is equivalent to 70 percent or more than half of the barangays total land area. Farming is the main man-made lake of income owing to the barangays basic agricultural features.There is only a couple of(prenominal) banking institution in the area that offers to the demands of the line of credit sector, as well as the needs of the farmers and government employees. It reserves agricultural loans to farmers but only a few can avail refer open to stringent lending requirements and high interest rates. Fruits and other farm products of thin quality are usually sold to Iloilo City or Passi City because of the high price these commodities command. Residents of Managopaya just now contain themselves with products of inferior quality for their daily consumption requirements.Local traders supplement and assume the role of lending institutions by providing cash advance to small farmers and sugarcane folks during emergencies. The suki system is the most prevalent method of conducting credit line where local traders acts as financiers and at the same time control the price of fish, pedigree and other farm products. The absence of larger scale establishments further complicate the worsening situation because residents shut away have to go to Iloilo City to purchase product which are not available in Banate or in Passi City .This means additional burden to the poor especially now that the transportation cost is high. 1. 1. 3Social Development There is only one (1) public elementary school. health services are provided by the Barangay Health Center located in the Proper. It is visited every 2-3 months by a doctor, a nurse, a dentist, a alveolar consonant aid, and midwife. The barangays leading causes of mortality from 2000 to 2011 are cardio-vascular diseases, hypertension, pulmonary tuberculosis, and bronchopneumonia. On the other hand, the leading causes of morbidity are acute respiratory infection, diarrhea, and pulmonary tuberculosis.The barangays crude birth rate is 17. 5 per 1,000 populations and its crude close rate is 3. 3 per 1,000 populations. Its infant mortality rate is 7. 22 per 1,000 populations while maternal mortality rate is 1. 8 per 1,000 populations. Based on the 2012 survey on population, there are 285 total of households and 298 total of families. The winding materials used for outer walls of these dwelling units are mostly indigenous products the likes of bamboo, sawali, cogon, and nipa.However, there are alike some units that make use of sturdy materials like concrete, brick stones, galvanized iron, aluminum, and hard wood. . 2 THE PROPOSED UPLAND IRRIGATION THAT COMES FROM WATERFALLS OF MANAGOPAYA, BANATE, ILOILO Managopaya is largely an mountainous barangay and majority of its people source their income from their upland agriculture activities. Cognizant of this and the fact that the uplands soil fertility is deteriorating due to denudation and prolonged dry spell, the LGUs priority nurture agenda is to reverse the situation in the near future. The LGU, at the moment, is fortunate to be part of the foreign-assisted Upland Development Program (UDP).However, due to trammel financial resources, upland development activities are also limited. The LGU, thus, would like to harness its potential sources of water to provide farmers the necessary water requ irements for their high value crops and be lured to expand their production. This would, at the same time, address the hassle of low income of farmers which is a result of low production of crops. Thus, this feasibility study is being prepared for the development of two (2) major potential sources of water for irrigation purposes.Among the barangays development strategies is to recover the financial investments for it to be able to replicate the same project or to finance other development projects of the municipality. The LGU also recognizes the fact that, in order for this project to succeed, there is a need to put in place support facilities/activities like a nursery for planting materials, a bagsakan center for marketing support, and training to farmers on high-value crops production. In the brass of planting materials for high-value crops, the LGU plans to provide these to farmers on a plant-now-pay later scheme.