Restoration of the necessary Land the Improvement of the Irrigation

Restoration of the necessary agricultural land has to be balanced with the improvement of the irrigation system that joined in broken resulting from the flood.

The main source of the land irrigation absolute was needed because without the irrigation that was arranged the rice crop will be of bad quality and even died.

Was like this it was said Waridin (60), Chairman Kelompok Tani Tirtorejo, Desa Wates, Kecamatan Undaan, Kabupaten Kudus, on Saturday (12/1).

This matter remembered the embankment of the irrigation channel that originated in the Kedungombo Reservoir will be broken in several points resulting from the overflowing of the Wulan River late December 2007.

Waridin suggested, with waited for the flood to subside in Wates Village rice cultivation, Regional Government could collect data on damage of irrigation channels.

If the channels already were not flooded, the government immediately could improve.

The "paddy-field of the farmers in the Undaan Subdistrict was the cistern paddy-field."

The paddy-field irrigation fully did not rely on rain, but needed water from the irrigation, said Waridin, that his paddy-field measuring five hectare broken was flooded.

The same request was brought forward by Masiran (55), the farmer the Sambung Village, Kecamatan Undaan.

The government was hoped for should not stress in the provisions of the seed and fertilizer, but also improved broken irrigation channels.

Masiran worried, after restoring the paddy-field and burying re-rice, stopped rain, while the irrigation was not yet improved.

The certain farmers’ confusion strove for water for their respective paddy-field.

The "condition" for the "weather could not be now guessed."

Now can be flooded, tomorrow even the drought, said he.

The irrigation channel from the Kedungombo Reservoir that was in the Medini Village, Kecamatan Undaan was broken in several points.

Two the longest former irrigation channels, that is around eight meter, could be seen from the Kudus-Purwodadi Highway.

The irrigation embankment was broken in two sides, so as to interrupt the water current from the main source.

The other dropout only on one hand and was not so big and long.

In the Selojari Village, Kecamatan Klambu, Kabupaten Grobogan, the Bakan Time embankment, the water cross-section from the Kletak Reservoir, also broken.

Moreover, four equipment for piping also broken as a result of remaining water

The "improvement of four implements needed the fund of Rp 4 million."

The fund was gotten from self-supporting the farmer's group, said Rasmin (55), the farmer Selojari.

According to him, equipment for piping this was needed to channel water from the Bakan Time.

Irrigation Channel

The Indonesian Government Rehabilitation of the Irrigation Channel

This step was part of the implementation of President's instruction to priority the development of the infrastructure of agriculture.

"This province including Banten, West Java, Central Java, East Java, South Sulawesi, West Sumatra and North Sumatra," said Public Works Minister, Djoko Kirmanto after the limited cabinet meeting with the President and Vice President in the Department of Agriculture, on Tuesday (15/1).

The election of provinces be based on in the contribution size towards the production of the national rice.

"In fact all the provinces could the part, but that was biggest to the province that became the national rice barn," said Djoko.

According to him, the development and rehabilitation of the network of this irrigation was ascertained could not be finished in time one year like that was wanted by the Agriculture Minister.

The reason is, apart from the annual fund will not suffice; time that was needed for this program was long enough.

According to Djoko, the development and rehabilitation of the network of the irrigation as well as the control of the flood just would finish in 2009.

At this time the network of the irrigation that was available was as big as 6,7 million hectare, where around 1,5 million hectare broken and entered the rehabilitation program.