The SAB said current water requirement for Kharif season was more than storing water in dams for future usages. INP/File
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) has questioned Punjab irrigation department’s argument over water shortages and storages in Mangla dam, saying that Sindh had been hit in Kharif sowing due to shortages in rivers.
The board raised the question at its meeting held on Sunday presided over by Mehmood Nawaz Shah. Some growers joined the meeting online also.
Present at the meeting were Dr Zulfiqar Yousfani, Imran Bozdar, Aslam Mari, Arbab Ahsan, Taha Memon and others.
The meeting discussed Mangla Dam, Pakistan’s big national reservoir, in detail and expressed dismay on the Punjab irrigation department’s claim that “water should have been allowed to be stored in Mangla Dam and shortages should have been transferred to province”.
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RIVERBED of the mighty Indus near Gaimro dyke witnesses an unusual bustle with a combined harvester, a costly machinery, being used for wheat harvesting on one side and a heavy duty modernised tractor employed for even distribution of fertiliser to ensure spring cultivation of sugarcane, on the other.
The newly sown crop is then watered using groundwater lifted through tube-wells.
Ghotki is located on the left bank of the Indus and its command area is fed by Ghotki feeder canal of Guddu barrage, the first barrage over the Indus in Sindh, while the riverine area near Gaimro dyke, where mechanised means are being used for spring cultivation of sugarcane, falls within the jurisdiction of the Katcho Bhindi police station.
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Sindh farmers forced to sell wheat harvests to middlemen at lower rates as govt delays procurement
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File photo of wheat growers in the field.
The majority of wheat growers in Sindh have been forced to sell their harvests to middlemen at lower rates.
This happened due to a delay in procurement from the Sindh government.
On the other hand, the Sindh agriculture minister says 12 procurement centres were established in Badin district.
KARACHI: The provincial government couldn’t begin the procurement drive on time, forcing majority of the wheat growers in Sindh to sell their harvests to middlemen at lower rates,
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