The project is a World Bank financed project with the main goal the improvement of living conditions of the farming population in Gjakova and Prizren region through increased economic activity, responsive to and sustainable in the emerging market context and through the sustained use and improvement of natural resources and particularly water resources.

The specific Project purpose is a sustainable increase of agricultural production and productivity in the irrigation schemes of Radoniqi and Dukagjini. Radoniqi irrigation schemes predominantly covers the area in the Municipality of Gjakova and in the Municipality of Rahovec with the intake structure from Radoniqi Dam, while Dukagjini irrigation scheme is situated in the Minicipality of Prizren and the water is captured directly from River Lumbardhi i Prizrenit. The project area has a size of around 15’000 hectares. The existing irrigation system was originally built at the beginning of the 1960s, and with the help of the Radoniqi irrigation company, the system was expanded and partially reconstructed in the early 1980s. Radoniqi is a modern irrigation scheme comprised of eight subsystems: Ura e Terezive, Ratkoc, Janosh, Qerim, Doblibare, Çifllak, Anadrini and Rogovë, while the Dukagjini irrigation scheme (located in Prizren region) is partially traditional partially modern irrigation system comprised of two subsystems: “subsystem R” and “subsystem D”.   

The project commenced on May, 2020 and was completed by August 2022 – supporting the improvement and rehabilitation of the main canals, outlet structures, basins, new regulation structures, irrigations systems and other structures such as renovation of administrative buildings in Gjakova, river crossings in Drini and Llukac as well as rehabilitation of the Warehouse in Lugbunar. The existing regulating structures were replaced with a new regulation structure with motorized Needle Valves – these valves take the role of the existing radial gates, thus allowing a permanent and precise flow rate control. Through this project, the water consumption derived from the main canal to the fields, is measured and controlled more efficiently. Equipment installed can easily be connected to the SCADA system which allows collection of information, monitoring, analyzing, recording data and management of these data from/to all pumps, pools, systems for regulation, control, supervision and management of the entire irrigation system.