AIBAK (BNA) Local officials and farmers in Samangan province say that farmers in the province are facing serious problems due to lack of agricultural water and poverty.
Farmers in Samangan province say they are facing serious problems due to water shortages and poverty, and have been unable to cultivate 40 percent of their irrigated land with wheat seeds.
They call on the authorities to build hydroelectric dams to help solve the problems of agricultural water shortages and to help the farmers with improved wheat seeds.
Gholam Sakhi, a farmer in the village of Lerghan Aibak, says: “I have forty acres of irrigated land. Due to the lack of agricultural water, I grow half of it every year, but in the remaining 20 acres during the irrigation season, there is a shortage of water. I have to work.”. The farmer says that if a dam is built into the Samangan Sea and the excess sea water is stored in it, all the farmers can irrigate the barren land in addition to the irrigated land and get more crops.
Haji Zia, a farmer, said: “I could not buy wheat seeds this year because I did not have money, so I did not sow 40 acres of my land in parallel.”
Abdul Sattar, an employee of the Samangan Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, confirmed the lack of agricultural water, poverty and poverty of the peasants. Due to the shortage of agricultural water, farmers cultivated 15,000 hectares this year and the remaining 9,000 hectares have not been seeded.
He added that there are 165,000 hectares of parallel flooded land in the center of the six districts of Samangan. remained.
He says that a certain amount of modified wheat seeds and chemical fertilizers are distributed to the peasants every year through the Ministry of Agriculture and Institutions, but this amount is small, it does not meet the needs of the peasants at all.
On the other hand, Mullah Mohammad Omar Anas, the head of Khulm Aibak sea basin, considers the lack of agricultural water in that province as a big challenge and says that the main problem of the people of Samangan was not the lack of agricultural water. This amount of water alone solves the problems of agricultural water, 30% of agricultural lands and the remaining 70% of agricultural land is left without water.
The head of the Khulm Aibak marine basin said that in that province, the water dam, which is located along the Samangan Sea, was designed and mapped by the Ministry of Energy and Water during the previous government, and this dam has a storage capacity of 8 million cubic meters.
Anas added that if the dam, which has a budget of $32 million, is built, it will irrigate 15,000 hectares of land in parallel, and the agricultural water problems of the landowners of Aibak, Hazrat Sultan district and Khulm district will be solved.
He added that the department has built the revolving dam several times with the Ministry of Electricity and asked for the project to be implemented, but water officials have said that efforts are underway to find a budget.
Bakhtar News Agency
