Thursday 10 / October / 2024
Muscat: The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources (MAFWR) has signed an agreement to design, construct, and implement the Omani Electronic Falaj Management System (LMD), in cooperation with the UNESCO Chair for Aflaj Studies at the University of Nizwa, and funded by the Agricultural and Fisheries Development Fund, with the Khaial Digital Company for Technical Solutions.
This project comes within the water sector development projects in accordance with the Sultanate’s vision “Oman 2040”, and it is one of the innovative systems and sites related to managing the times of watering the Omani falajes.
The website and smart application will allow the owners of Omani farms to know their share in farm irrigation, its timing and its astronomical rotation system. The system and the website also provide many other services and indicators related to aflaj.
The system aims to preserve the Omani history and introduce technology in the Omani falaj with the fourth industrial revolution, and help the next generation to identify the times of watering the falaj easily and conveniently, in addition to preserving information on the Omani falaj and water owners from extinction, in addition to linking the citizen to farms and aflaj, and deepening the legacy history of this landmark.
It is hoped that the system will contribute to reducing the burden on falaj agents in terms of entering and updating data, quickly identifying water shares from falajs, and creating a digital system in the field of falajs that achieves knowledge of the analyzes related to each falaj , challenges and water indicators.
On the scientific side, the system will contribute to assisting Omani and international researchers and academics in the field of aflaj in identifying aflaj systems and their circulation, and supporting research and scientific studies for them.
