PESHAWAR
Directorate On-Farm Water Management (OFWM), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agriculture Department on Sunday in collaboration with World Bank organized a three-day training workshop on “Irrigation Agronomy” to enable field staff to educate farmers on modern water management intervention.
The training besides 30 field officers was also attended by KP Secretary Agriculture and Livestock, Dr Mohammad Israr and Director General OFWM, Javed Iqbal Khattak.
The experts threw light on sustainable agricultural development and different types of crops, latest agricultural practices and irrigation technologies. They said that our farmers could increase their crops by implementing different features of modern agriculture technologies.
The experts highlighted ways and means to provide water conservation facilities to farmers so that they could irrigate their respective dry lands and to produce more crops by using less water. Drip irrigation system delivers water directly to a plant’s roots, reducing the evaporation that happens with spray watering systems, they explained.
Addressing the participants, Secretary Agriculture praised OFWM for holding a training workshop and said that it would help educate farmers in modern technologies of irrigation systems. He said the objective of such activity is to upgrade the skills of the farmers in adopting modern irrigation intervention.
Director General OFWM Javed Iqbal Khattak said that the same type of workshops would be organized in other districts as well to increase the capacity of the stakeholders of the Department for educating farmers in water management resources.
