Irrigation Minister stress on Implementing Solar Power Driven Irrigation System

<p>Minister for Irrigation Umesh Kumar Yadav has directed the officials to manage solar power driven irrigation system from the current fiscal year.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>In an interaction organized in the Irrigation Division in Kathmandu today, Minister directed the officials concerned to manage the irrigation facility to farmers using solar power. <br><br>He argued that they should not wait for next fiscal year to implement the system.</p><p>It is shared that only about 700,000 hectares of land in the country has the irrigation facility for 12 months and to about one million hectares of land could be irrigated after the implementation of the shallow tube-well and the deep tube-well programmes.&nbsp; <br><br></p>