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ANNEX 9. Drainage and Soil Salinization

Country

Area equipped for

irrigation drained

Non-irrigated cultivated

area drained

Total cultivated area

drained (1000 ha)

% of area equipped for

full control surface

irrigation drained

% of total cultivated

area drained

Area salinized by

irrigation

% of area equipped for

full control irrigation

salinized

(1000 ha)

%

(1000 ha)

%

African Group

0.563

20.803

11.16

0.34

102.35

34.83

Benin

0.563

0.563

11.16

0.02

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Chad

Cote d’Ivoire

Gabon

Gambia

Guinea

20.24

0.6658

Guinea-Bissau

Mali

Mozambique

2

1.874

Niger

0.35

2.622

Nigeria

100

100

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Uganda

Arab Group

4201.67

32 4818.602

49.90

11.05 2946.422

30.78

Algeria

61.06

0

61.06

0.7441

Bahrain

1.3

26

1.065

33.65

Comoros

Djibouti

Egypt

3024

0

3024

85.47

250

Iraq

1762

49.99

Jordan

10.51

0

10.51

75.83

4.749

2.277

3.541

Kuwait

0.002

0.03

4.08

85.53

Lebanon

3

7

10

4.537

3.69

1

0.9615

Libya

9

0

9

0.4186

190

40.43

Mauritania

12.78

2.556