No Water: Crops drying up because of canal closure
Supplies released from the Sukkur barrage come to a stop annually for fifteen days.
JHUDO:
The wheat cultivated over 80,000 acres in Mirpurkhas this season is drying up as the irrigation department has not renewed the supply of water to the canals after the annual closures in January. Supplies released from the Sukkur barrage come to a stop annually for fifteen days as the canals and watercourses are cleaned of silt and build-up. This year, the canals were not only closed five days ahead of schedule on January 1, but are now supposed to stay that way for another eight to ten days, according to irrigation officials.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2012.
The wheat cultivated over 80,000 acres in Mirpurkhas this season is drying up as the irrigation department has not renewed the supply of water to the canals after the annual closures in January. Supplies released from the Sukkur barrage come to a stop annually for fifteen days as the canals and watercourses are cleaned of silt and build-up. This year, the canals were not only closed five days ahead of schedule on January 1, but are now supposed to stay that way for another eight to ten days, according to irrigation officials.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2012.