Past and Present Irrigation Opportunities in Kessab District

In the Kessab region, the arable lands and gardens were not irrigated, in difference to vegetable gardens and nurseries. Spring water and rainwater were collected in various basins and from there they were distributed through streams opened on earth, stone and logs. Many did not have vegetable gardens. Some vegetables were grown in pots placed in the yard and irrigation water was brought by shoulder.

In the 1970s, electricity became available, which fundamentally changed the possibilities of water use and irrigation. Apple and peach orchards also began to be irrigated. The villager opened artesian wells through his own resources, built his own reservoirs in his land or procured irrigation water for his gardens and vegetable gardens with large cisterns. Now the method of drip irrigation is spreading.