Evaluasi Kapasitas Jaringan Irigasi Lanrae Pada Kebutuhan Air Sawah di Kabupaten Barru

Irrigation is an infrastructure to increase land productivity and increase the intensity
of annual harvests, the availability of adequately controlled irrigation water is an input to increase
crop production. The Lanrae irrigation area which has 1400 Ha of agricultural rice fields that need
water, Lanrae is one of the areas located in Nepo Village, Mallusetasi District, Barru Regency.
This research aims to meet the needs of irrigation water for farmers who usually experience crop
failure due to lack of irrigation water and to increase the potential of existing agricultural products
in the Lanrae area in particular and in Barru Regency in general as well as to overcome complaints
from farmer groups who experience a lack of water to increase yields. harvest. This research was
conducted in the Lanrae Area, Mallusetasi District, Barru Regency, which was carried out from
January to March 2017 using quantitative methods. The results of the research on weirs and
irrigation in the Lanrae area of Barru Regency showed that the availability of water in the Lanrae
river is currently still sufficient to meet the needs for irrigation water in the Lanrae irrigation area
and the utilization of irrigation networks for irrigation water services is not optimal and the
efficiency of irrigation water use is very low. As well as the use of irrigation water in the upstream
areas tends to be excessive and the use of irrigation water in the middle and even downstream
areas is very short of water.