17 June
THE Sagaing Region Agriculture Department has implemented Sloping Agricultural Land Technology on 36 acres of special farmland in the Naga Self-Ad-ministered Zone of the region.
“Sagaing Region had 5.25 million acres of rain crops and 1.8 million acres of paddy fields in the last mini-budget period (April-September, 2018). To develop the agricultural sector in Naga, perennial pedigree seeds are also being distributed in the region,” said U Win Hlaing Oo, the head of the Sagaing Region Agriculture Department. Sagaing Region’s Irrigation Department is providing water to 560,000 acres of farmland from 43 dams, reservoirs, lakes, and weirs. There are two reservoirs which protect 42,000 acres of land from possible flooding of the Chindwin River. “The Department of Irrigation and Water Utilization Management constructed two reservoirs, 35 dams, seven bridges, and took up other maintenance works and preventive measures, with an allocated budget of over K4.18 billion,” said U Soe Oo, the Sagaing Region Minister for Planning and Finance during a press conference on the third-year performance of the regional government.
Myo Win Tun (Monywa)(Translated by Ei Mon)
