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I think you first need to look a it more into the type of crop (rice, casava, maize, matoke, vegetables etc.) you are primarily aiming for, what the distribution system will be (flood irrigation, trenches, sprinklers, drip, manual with a long hose etc.) and last but not least what the primary purpose of the irrigation is supposed to be (full irrigation to open new areas to cultivation/elongation of cropping period/3rd cropping season per year/drought protection/switch to vegetable with higher water consumption etc.)?

Your assumptions sound about right for elongation of season or switch to vegetable production in fields along year-long rivers, but the system should be probably mobile so that it can be moved along the river side to cover multiple fields (sharing between farmers).

I think you first need to look a it more into the type of crop (rice, millet, casava, maize, matoke, vegetables etc.) you are primarily aiming for, what the distribution system will be (flood irrigation, trenches, sprinklers, drip, manual with a long hose etc.) and last but not least what the primary purpose of the irrigation is supposed to be (full irrigation to open new areas to cultivation/elongation of cropping period/3rd cropping season per year/drought protection/switch to vegetable with higher water consumption etc.)?

Your assumptions sound about right for elongation of season or switch to vegetable production in fields along year-long rivers, but the system should be probably mobile so that it can be moved along the river side to cover multiple fields (sharing between farmers).