In Haryana, micro irrigation pilot projects are being executed to irrigate 500 acres of village Amadalpur-Kahadi and 225 acres of the Subana area of district Jhajjar.
A sum of Rs four crore is being spent on these solar energy based projects to provide micro irrigation facility to the fields of farmers, Haryana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, OP Dhankar said on Sunday.
The Minister inspected the micro irrigation pilot project in Amadalpur village of Jhajjar and called upon the farmers to cooperate to make this important project successful.
He said that to promote water conservation, the farmers should do away with traditional flood system of irrigation and adopt micro irrigation.
Issuing directions to the Chief Engineer of Canal Area Development Authority (CADA) in Amadalpur, the Minister said that until the farmers have their own equipment for micro irrigation, the Irrigation Department should get done irrigation through their rain gun.
Apart from this, arrangement would be made to provide sprinkler system to the farmers on subsidy, he said.
