Resumé

Two things make this project different from many irrigation projects:

• highly developed private sector in the project area that is able to handle input supply, marketing and processing
• presently successful smallholder irrigation already taking place, and acting as a visible demonstration of the income benefits that result from its adoption.

The challenge of LUSIP is to replicate the already existing successful smallholder irrigation schemes

• on a much larger scale and
• with a wider range of crops than just sugar.