The pantabangan watershed management and erosion control project

Abstract

© 1983 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved. In 1971f the construction began on the largest multipurpose dam in the Philippines in Pantabangan, province of Nueva Ecija, Central Luzon region. Costing some P242 million and partly financed by the World Bankf it was completed in 1974 (Figure 8.1). Its basic purpose is to store the waters of the Upper Pampanga River for four major uses: For irrigation— One of the main goals of the government is to make the Philippines self-sufficient in rice. One of the strategies for achieving this goal is to reduce dependency on uncertain rain-fed irrigation, shift to year-round stream-fed irrigation and, thereby, increase outputs per crop and the number of crops per year. The Pantabangan dam now provides irrigation to almost 84,000 hectares (ha) of lowland rice farms. Precise production figures are not readily available, but the Ministry of Agriculture officials claim that the dam has contributed significantly not only towards ricesufficiency but towards making the Philippines a net exporter of rice as well.

Source or Periodical Title

Forest and Watershed Development and Conservation in Asia and the Pacific

Page

485-556

Document Type

Article

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