MELAKA, Jan 4 — The project to upgrade the irrigation system in agricultural areas, including paddy fields, in the Klebang state constituency under the second phase, involving an allocation of RM29.4 million, will be implemented in September.
Klebang state assemblyman Datuk Lim Ban Hong said the project would involve 191 farmers, including 180 paddy farmers, covering an area of 815 hectares.
He said work to upgrade the irrigation system would be implemented by the Agriculture Department and Department of Irrigation and Drainage to ensure sufficient water supply in agricultural areas in the constituency, especially during long droughts.
“Phase two of the irrigation system upgrading project will start in September and it is expected to be completed in two years,” he told reporters after a meeting with youth farmers in Batang Tiga, here, today.
He said that the project to upgrade the irrigation system there comprised three phases, with phase one involving the construction of a pump house in 2017.
He hoped that the implementation of phase two of the project would increase the production of crops, especially rice, from twice a year to five times in two years.
Lim later presented a water pump worth almost RM1,000 to Mohd Zubir Muhamat, 27, in an effort to assist the paddy farmer to carry out his planting activities on his 2.02-hectare piece of land.
