Under the programme efforts would be made for motivating farmers to adopt new techniques to save the irrigation water from wastage and to create awareness about the importance of drip sprinkler system among the growers of the Punjab.
Sources in Agriculture department told Business Recorder on Wednesday that the adoption of new irrigation techniques will make agriculture sector more profitable, to enhance productivity and save the irrigation water from wastage across the Punjab. The agriculture sector was facing serious treats of shortage of irrigation water that was posing threats to overall production of the crops.
The adoption of drip sprinkler system would enable the growers and cultivators to save 50 percent irrigation water from wastage, increase the standard of productivity. Sources further told that 25 percent canal water, 30 percent watercourses and 35 percent water waste in fields that reduced availability of irrigation water for agriculture.
Agriculture experts foresee that agriculture sector of Pakistan will facing serious shortage of irrigation water in future. Under the prevailing circumstances the experts had suggested that government should adopt preventive measures to cope with the wastage of irrigation water. They further suggested that government should also take effective steps for bringing revolutionary changes in agriculture sector by adopting modern irrigation system a gross roots level.
In Sialkot district, the drip sprinkler irrigation system was gaining popularity among the farmers for better and effective utilization of available irrigation water. Drip sprinkler system had been installed on 161 acres in various parts of Sialkot, Daska, Pasrur and Sambrial tehsils of Sialkot district. The provincial government was providing 60 percent subsidy to the farmers of the installation of drip sprinkler system while farmers will contribute 40 percent the installation.