50 Sawah Hectares In Mukomuko Bengkulu Have Not Received Irrigation Water

Rice fields owned by farmers from Arah Tiga Village, Regency, Monday (21/11/2022) ANTARA/Ferri.

MUKOMUKO - Mukomuko Regency Agriculture Service official, Bengkulu said, of the 1.000 hectares of oil palm, rubber and swamp plantations that have been printed into new rice fields in this area, about 50 hectares have not received water from technical irrigation. "The position of printing the rice fields is 1,000 hectares, from that area the initial problem was not optimal to the location of the land printed into rice fields. Currently there are around 50 hectares of rice fields that have not been able to get irrigation water," said Secretary of the Agriculture Service of Mukomuko Regency Elxandi Utria in Mukomuko, Antara, Sunday, January 8. He said, related to this problem, there has been coordination with the Sumatra VII Bengkulu River Basin Center (BWS) and they are committed to this area so that water reaches the printed land. Currently, water from irrigation has gradually entered the rice fields after the construction of an irrigation network. So now there are still 50 hectares of rice fields that have not received water. For example, 60 hectares of land in Tirta Mulya Village have been printed into rice fields, but there are still two to three hectares that have not received irrigation water. "There is already an irrigation network. The cause of rice fields in this area cannot be irrigated because water cannot cross into rice fields belonging to farmers in this area," he said. In the future, BWS remains committed so that all land that is printed into rice fields can get maximum water from irrigation. Then there are some farmers' rice fields in Lubuk Pinang that do not get irrigation water because the irrigation network that has been built by BWS has collapsed so that irrigation water does not flow to the farmers' fields in this area optimally. "The land that has been printed into rice fields in Lubuk Pinang District was initially normal because there was a collapsed irrigation building, now it is being repaired by BWS, we hope that 100 percent can be flowed," he said.