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Irrigation to save Aman farming

Teesta Irrigation Project supplies the water targeting 65,000 hectares of land

Our Correspondent, Nilphamari
The farmers who are facing problem in Aman transplanting due to scanty rain in the Teesta Irrigation Project area here are being given irrigation facilities.
The facilities are being given by the projectauthorities.
Dalia Division Water Development Board Agriculture Extension Officer Rafiul Bari said they have been rendering irrigation facility to farmers, targeting irrigation of 65,000 hectares of Aman fields in Sadar, Jaldhaka, Dimla, Kishoreganj, Gangachara, Badarganj, Taraganj, Khanshama, Chirirbandar and Parbatipur upazilas.
Bari said they are able to supply irrigational water through a network of 425km of canals to even distant fields without hindrance as the normal flow of water in the Teesta river is now 10,000 cusec. The flow of water is more than adequate as 2,000 cusec to 2,500 cusec of water flow is needed for smooth irrigation, he added.
Farmer Azizul Islam in Dimla upazila said they usually get water from the irrigation project in the dry season when Boro paddy is cultivated as India closes all gates of its Gajaldoba Barrage, bringing water flow down to only 400 cusec.
The gates are opened in the rainy season
during Aman cultivation, which depends on rainwater, he added.
The project area is adorned with green Aman fields, while many farmers living outside the area cannot plant even a single sapling although the peak Aman transplantation season is going to be over in a few days, said farmer Abdul Gaffar in Jaldhaka.
Khairuzzaman Liton, leader of the stakeholder farmers' group under S4T irrigation canal in Sadar upazila, said the Teesta project has been the saviour of Aman farmers this year.
District Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Sub-Assistant Agriculture Officer Sanarul Islam said there was only 185mm of rain in almost three weeks of August this year while it was 650mm during the same period last year.
District DAE Deputy Director Abul Kashem Azad said they set a target to cultivate Aman paddy on 1.13 lakh hectares of land, but scanty rain was a barrier to achieving the target. Azad said they managed to overcome the problem as Teesta Irrigation Project provided irrigation water.
Farmers outside the project arrange irrigation through 328 deep tube-wells and 40,000 shallow pumps and there will be no problem in getting maximum yield, he added.