HYDERABAD, Oct 25: Efforts will be made to encourage cultivation of cash crops like vegetables and oilseeds in Jamshoro district for increasing the income of small farmers.

For this purpose, growers will be trained in improved methods of cultivation. Village-level seminars will be held, field days and film shows will be organized and technical literature will be distributed.

This was stated by EDO Ghulam Hussain Laghari while speaking to growers and field staff on the occasion of a village -level seminar near Jamshoro on Monday.

He said that the growers of the district have changed their pattern by cultivating cotton , chillies , onion , oilseed and pulses in place of sugarcane and rice due to increasing shortage of irrigation water.

Due to cultivation of cotton crop, one new cotton ginning factory in Sehwan taluka has started functioning on regular basis from this season by which number of cotton ginning factories has increased to four and would prove more helpful to growers for selling their phutti nearer to their area, he added.

Mr Leghari told growers to save their valuable irrigation water by improving their watercourses through newly introduced national programme for improving watercourses and interested growers would be encouraged.