Rp 3.5 billion to Improve Irrigation in Tuban

Friday, 16 January, 2009 | 14:27 WIB 

TEMPO Interactive, Tuban: Tuban municipality government will start a project improving the irrigation in the rice fields in several villages in Widang Sub-District. The project worth Rp3.5 billion is to clean out the mud that has blocked the water flowing to Bengawan, Solo River. “We will start the project in March,” said Widang Sub-District Head, Bambang Dwijono, yesterday. 

The blocked water caused a harvest failure on 400 hectares of rice fields in Tegalrejo, Kedungrejo, and Simorejo villages since 2007. Every planting season, the rice can only survive for 30 to 40 days and then dies when the rainy season arrives. 

SUJATMIKO.