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World Bank
assures assistance for Sindh irrigation system
KARACHI -The World Bank has assured to provide financial
assistance for improving the irrigation system in Sindh so
that the growers could be enabled to increase their crop
production.
A WB team, led by Constance Bernard, Sector Director
Agriculture and Rural Development Unit South Asia Region,
Washington DC, gave the assurance during a meeting with the
Sindh Minister for Irrigation ad Power, Ali Mir Shah, here on
Friday.
The minister said that keeping in view an increase in the
productivity, the farmers would be trained besides providing
them modern technical know-how and incentives by forming water
users associations in their respective areas.
He also said that water logging and salinity is also an
important issue because half of the uncultivated land in Sindh
is being destroyed by this menace.
Regarding water lining, the minister said that the government
of Sindh is giving top priority to water courses with a view
to save the water losses and if water is saved it would have a
good impact on the agriculture productivity and economy as a
result thereof.
He also informed that delegation that mangroves forest, spread
on hundreds of acres, had also been destroyed, and due to lack
of river water the sea, the marine fish has also disappeared.
Commenting on the exploitation of the underground sweet water
zone, the minister said that a huge number of tube well, have
been installed for getting freshwater.-PPI
courtesy Daily Business
recorder , 6
April, 2002
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