SYLHET, Feb 14: With a target to raising the paddy yield in Sylhet division, irrigation facilities would be provided for a total of 2,46,969 hectares of Boro land this season by using a total of 36,978 irrigation tools.
Besides, 40,900 of traditional small tools would be used for small plots manually covering another 41,324 hectares.
Officials said the would-be covered area of 3,46,145 hectares is about more than 73 per cent of the targeted area for cultivation the crop's cultivation.
DAE officials informed that they had already set a target for bringing 4,68,557 hectares of land for Boro farming in the region.
Accordingly the farmers were busy in the field for transplantation and other work. Irrigation is the major essential job for Boro paddy farming.
Contacted, the additional director of the DAE's Sylhet divisional office Md. Altabur Rahman told this correspondent the common farmers in the region had been far behind in the use of irrigation equipments. They are used to following the traditional systems.
But things are changing in recent years and by now they are more and more involved in modern methods of agriculture including irrigation.
The use of irrigation equipment alongside the others, including proper use of fertiliser had got a rise too, he added.
Meanwhile, the DAE, BADC and other departments had set the target for irrigation for this season. Under the programme 36,978 irrigation tools of different types would be used.
It includes, 138 deep tube wells to irrigate 8153 hectares, 7593 shallow tube wells to irrigate 49,699 hectares, 29,247 Low Lift Pumps (LLPs) for irrigating 246,969 hectares and 40,900 other small tools like Done and others (all types of traditional ones) to irrigate 41,324 hectares.
