Water likely to be released into Machi Branch soon
July 1, 2021
PESHAWAR: The suffering of farmers in Malakand, Mardan, Swabi and Nowshera districts is likely to end soon as the government is set to release water into the Machi Branch of Upper Swat Canal in the coming few days, according to Secretary Irrigation Tahir Orakzai.
The farmers have been anxiously waiting for the restoration of water supply in the Machi branch of Upper Swat canal as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is constantly working to repair the affected breach in Kharki village.
Water supply was suspended to hundreds of thousands of acres of land from the Machi Branch of Upper Swat Canal to the four districts after a breach in the main canal June 18, 2021. It caused huge losses to standing crops, particularly the sugarcane, tobacco, maize and orchards and vegetables in these areas as there was no alternative source of water supply to these areas.