General Description

Irrigation development , however gathered further greater momentum and acceleration with the assumption of responsibilities by the government from 1988 and at the end of September 2019, a total of (581) additional irrigation projects have been completed, while increasing the beneficial area  to  more  than  (1.14) million hectares.

IRRIGATION STRUCTURES AND ITS RELATED BENEFICIAL AREA AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 2019

Sr No	State/Region	Number of Dam/Weir/ Sluice	Benificial area(hectare)		Remark
			Irrigable	Flood protected
1	Kachin State	5	8812	–
2	Kayah State	32	17785	–
3	Kayin State	12	1504	–
4	Chin State	1	98	–
5	Sagaing Region	42	231913	–
6	Tanintharyi Region	21	1103	–
7	Bago Region	66	190435	71523
8	Magway Region	68	106581	–
9	Mandalay Region	99	219288	–
10	Mon State	17	9959	24847
11	Rak:hine State	14	2381	–
12	Yangon Region	45	58098	4221 1
13	Shan State	41	79856	–
14	Ayeyarwady Region	86	176839	–
15	Napyitaw Council Area	32	39765	–
	Total	581	1144417	138581

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