NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, March 5: The drip irrigation system costs about Rs70,000 per acre as it supplies slow but continuous water and fertilisers to plants at their roots, says Adviser to Chief Minister on Agriculture and Food Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi on Monday.

Growers were supplied the system on 80 per cent subsidy by the Sindh government, he said while addressing a seminar in New Jatoi.

District nazim Ghulam Rasool Jatoi said that “The district government understands the importance of agriculture which was the reason it provided such a heavy subsidy to growers.”

He said the district government moved the provincial authorities in providing 403 tube-wells free of cost adding, ‘lining of watercourses was also going on smoothly.—BoC