Sindh cotton cultivation hit by acute water shortage

Monday, June 1, 2009 at 12:04 am

MIRPURKHAS: Cotton cultivation like other parts of the country is being badly hit by the acute shortage of irrigation water, while cultivators continued agitating against the dearth of water.

Most of the districts in the province including Mirpurkhas, Jhaddu, Naukot and Digri are facing water famine, while the standing crops at the tail end of the canal are getting damaged due to water pressure not being enough for reaching over there for the last several months besides cultivation of cotton is also being severely hampered.

Cotton cultivation season is about to end, while the cultivators for lack of water agitating and staging protests, but to no avails.