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PUNJAB IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (PIPIP) Initiated
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- To meet the challenge of the increasing gap between supply and demand of irrigation water, the Punjab government has initiated a project to introduce High Efficiency Irrigation Systems (HEIS) through out the province.
- HEIS consists of helping farmers learn and utilize high efficiencey irrigation technologies such as drip irrigation, sprincler irrigation, laser land level and improved watercourses.
- 200 HEIS schemes to be installed in the pilot phase 2011-12 and 4000 irrigation schemes in main project.
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National Program for Improvement of Watercourses
Pakistan has one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated gravity flow canal irrigation network. The network consists of 3 major reservoirs, 16 barrages and 44 canals. Seventy nine percent of the total irrigated land in the country depends on canal irrigation. Despite this extensive system, agricultural efficiency in Pakistan is only 35.5%. This means that 35.5 % of the water that reaches the fields is actually used by the crops. It is estimated that about 40 % of water is lost due to leakage, seepage, spillage and percolation in the century old unlined watercourses. more..
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