Water supplied to Achanbigei fields
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 01 2023:
In the face of glaring shortage of water, the Global Farmers Club has been consistently supplying water to the agricultural fields at Achanbigei village in Porompat under Imphal East district.
This was informed by Soubam Thanil, secretary, Global Farmers Club during an inspection of the agricultural lands conducted today accompanied by local farmers.
The farmers body secretary went on to say that the total agricultural lands in the area are roughly 400 paris.
He stated that despite the meagre rainfall this year, adequate water has been supplied to these fields with the help of the Chief Minister and the MI Department.
He further shared that the initiative of supplying water to different agricultural fields in rotation had been launched on June 23 .
"With the use of four River Lift Irrigation pumps and electric motors we are pouring all efforts to ensure proper irrigation of these fields so that the harvest will not be affected", he said with hope.