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MIRPURKHAS, Oct 21: Speakers at a one-day workshop on ‘Problems of irrigation and drainage’ complained that growers were finding it impossible to cultivate crops with a shortage of water.
The workshop was organized at a farm by the Pakistan Council for Research on Water Resources and the Drainage Research Centre, Tandojam, in collaboration with the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority on Monday evening.
They said that if serious efforts were not made to overcome this problem, then the situation would aggravate in future.
Addressing the workshop, chairman, SIDA, Abdul Haq; its General Manager Dr Mumtaz Sohag, the director, Drainage Research Centre, Tandojam, M. K. Mari; Nazeer Ahmed Anwar, Prof Dr Abdul Ghafoor, Agriculture University, Faisalabad; Dr Qazi Suleman Memon, and Dr Mohammad Ashraf said problems of water-logging and salinity were being faced due to excessive use of water for crop, and added that farmland was being badly affected due to it.
They said that attempts of getting more water than was actually needed had led to unfair distribution of irrigation water.
They said that growers should adopt modern technology to get good results for their crops.
They said that by using laser technology for levelling land, 20 per cent to 30 per cent water could be saved.
On the occasion, 17 distributaries of the Nara Canal Area Water Board were handed over to their farmers’ organizations under the participatory system.
SUICIDE: A woman, Laxmi, 24, wife of Wishno Kolhi, committed suicide by taking pesticide in the old Chore town on Tuesday.
BOY INJURED: A boy, Shaukat, was seriously injured in the head in the Hameedpura Colony ground on Monday.
His father has lodged a case with the Town police accusing a man, Mama Khizar Hayat, of beating his son.
Police have arrested the accused.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT: The district and sessions judge, Mirpurkhas, Mohammad Iqbal Arain, has awarded life imprisonment to a man, Daulat Gurgech, in a murder case on Tuesday.
He has also been fined Rs50,000, which would be paid to the heirs of the murdered man, Mir Hassan.
GHOST EMPLOYEES: The adviser to the Sindh chief minister on health affairs, Noman Saigal, has said an operation will soon be launched against ghost health department employees.
He was talking to doctors, patients’ attendants and influential area people at the Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital the other day after visiting different sections of the hospital.
He said an inquiry into unfair distribution of medicines among patients at the hospital would be held.
He announced two ambulances for the hospital and gave an assurance that senior doctors would be promoted by Ramazan.
