Amran Sulaiman: "3 Juta Hektar Irigasi Akan Diperbaiki dalam 3 Tahun"
Indonesian Agriculture Minister: "Government Will Repair Irrigation"
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Jakarta (B2B) - Menteri Pertanian Amran Sulaiman mengungkapkan pemerintah bakal memperbaiki tiga juta hektare saluran irigasi pertanian di Tanah Air guna meningkatkan produktivitas tanaman pangan.
"Dari 3 juta hektare saluran irigasi yang bakal diperbaiki itu, rencananya dikerjakan secara bertahap yang berlangsung selama tiga tahun," ujarnya ketika meninjau Waduk Sriwedari di Kecamatan Jaken, Kabupaten Pati, Rabu.
Dia menambahkan, pada 2015 perbaikan irigasinya sepanjang satu juta hektare, demikian pula pada 2016 dan 2017 dengan panjang saluran irigasi yang sama.
Khusus Kabupaten Pati, saluran irigasi yang bakal diperbaiki diperkirakan mencapai 5.000 hektare.
Saluran irigasi yang diperbaiki, kata dia, merupakan irigasi tersier atau jaringan saluran irigasi yang tersebar di dalam areal persawahan. (Ant)
Jakarta (B2B) - Indonesian Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman said the Joko Widodo administration will repair irrigation system for three million hectares of farm lands as part of the program to improve the productivity of food crops.
"The project would be carried out by phases to be completed in three years," Amran said when inspecting the Sriwedari dam in the sub-district of Jaken, Pati District, Central Java, on Wednesday.
In 2015, repairs would cover irrigation system for one million hectares of farm lands," he said.
In Pati , repair will be made of irrigation channels for 5,000 hectares of rice fields, he said.
The irrigation channels are tertiary irrigation systems channeling water from dam and secondary irrigation system to rice fields , he added.
