KANCHANPUR: An irrigation facility was set up at Khajuwapatti in Shuklaphanta Municipality-1, Khanchanpur. The Dhangadhi-based Groundwater Irrigation Office of the Sudurpaschim Province Government supported Rs 5 million for the installation of a deep boring machine to provide irrigation facilities in all seasons in the farmlands there.

Chairman of Shuklaphanta Municipality-1 Uttar Dev Bhatta said that the deep boring machine is enough to irrigate 60 bigha of land. Besides the installation of a boring machine, regular power supply, provision of valves and pipelines have been expanded to ensure an uninterrupted irrigation facility.

“Some 200 farmers of this site are directly benefited from the irrigation facility. Irrigation facility has been accessible in all seasons,” Bhatta said.

Prior to this, the farmers in Khjuwapatti had to struggle a lot to irrigate their farms and the agricultural yield was also limited due to drought in the dry season.

Ratan Chaudhary, a local farmer, hoped to grow good quantity of crops, paddy and wheat with the facility of irrigation.