Photos .. Residents of the "Kifah" in Ismailia complain about the lack of irrigation water

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Al-Kifah area of the wind village of Qantara suffers west of the new agricultural areas for years because of lack of irrigation water because of technical defects in the canals and drains that irrigate these lands, which reach 6000 feddans area of the entire area, which caused the collapse of most of the lands And the inability of farmers to create artesian wells to solve the problem, according to the assertions of the people.

On the issue, a number of people spoke for the seventh day, where Salah Mustafa said of the people of the area, the problem of lack of irrigation water is an old problem, because of technical defects in the irrigation of Husseiniya of irrigation Salhiya, and lack of access to irrigation water for agricultural land, there is also a canal Shader or Azzam Of the West peace has the same problems, and we did not find any solutions from the officials until this moment, and made many complaints to agriculture, irrigation and local unity, but without benefit.

In the same context, Salem Mansour pointed out that the problem could be solved by developing the canal and rehabilitating it once again, repairing the old gates and allowances, or hastening the receipt of the canal which was established by the reconstruction apparatus recently to deliver water to the area and solve the problem of farmers.

Hossain Salama calls for the establishment of an agricultural cooperative association for the region, which is concerned with distributing fertilizers and solving the problems of farmers, whether in irrigation or pesticides, especially that the area does not have an agricultural association. We buy all agricultural inputs from the black market at great prices. Such as irrigation water problem.

While Mahtherman confirms that one of the banks was served through one of the people, the bank Shaderzam line of the basin of Nemra 5 Qassasin East, and no action has been taken so far, especially that the bank can be used in irrigation in the case of rehabilitation and development to be suitable for the passage of water from the canal Shader or Azzam.

In the same context, Ahmed Hegazy stressed the need to provide services to the region, which suffers from a large shortage of education there is no school and no health unit to serve nearly 7 thousand citizens of the region, the region also needs a bakery and a catering office, and veterinary unit to serve the peasants, We need security services and patrols, especially in the evening, to spread the fire in the area for water hoses, agricultural equipment and livestock.

On the other hand, the accountant Abdel Moneim Salem, the head of the wind village affiliated to the Kifah area, said that the area has already had many problems, and that this area was an agricultural association and was dissolved by a decision of the Minister of Agriculture. , And therefore there is difficulty in the region, and in the event of the completion of the rationing of residents of the struggle will be provided all services.

The head of the village said that a memorandum was presented to the West Qantara City Council to address the water resources to discuss the position of the lack of water and the high level of leakage to close the path of the public bank in that region, and is continuing to extract ration cards for the people to benefit from the subsidized rationing, On an area of 4000 meters.

For his part, Dr. Khalil, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that a cooperative association to serve farmers is being established according to the law of agricultural cooperation No. 122 of 1980 to extract agricultural holdings and receive pesticides and agricultural inputs.

He added that the liquidation committee is currently receiving all the funds of the association which were dissolved by a decision of the Minister of Agriculture, after payment of Mediwin related to the Association before the solution, and helping farmers solve all problems related to irrigation and water supply.