Farmers of 11 villages coming under the command area of Sukhanala Barrage constructed near Ganeri village in Dongargaon block will get benefit of additional irrigation facility in total 2062-hectare area in the district.
In-charge collector Dr Priyanka Shukla, while holding a meeting regarding the new project of Sukhanala Barrage at district panchayat Rajnandgaon has instructed the Deputy Director, Agriculture and the Executive Engineer, Water Resources Barrage Division, Dongargaon to make wide publicity of this additional irrigation project through the employees under their respective departments.
Shukla instructed them to form a joint team of Rural Agriculture Extension Officer, Patwari, Village Panchayat Secretary, Amin Engineer of Water Resources division for the publicity of the project.The team, by jointly holding farmers’ meeting, will inform the villagers about irrigation and crops.In the meeting, it was said that 1,500 hectare area in Kharif season and 562 hectare area in Rabi season would get irrigation facility from this additional irrigation project.
While giving information about the 11 villages to be benefited from the additional irrigation scheme, Executive Engineer, Water Resources Barrage division said that small canal work in Ganeri has been completed, from which the farmers will get irrigation facility in 65 hectare during Kharif and 130 hectare during rabi season.
Similarly from Maneri small canal, irrigation facility will get to 100 hectare kharif crops and 100 hectare rabi crops. From the Jamsarar small canal 100 hectare Kharif crops and 200 hectare rabi crops will be benefited.He said that total 142 hectare irrigation facility would be provided to Konari village from Bagdai distribution canal.