{"id":50970,"date":"2019-04-02T17:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50970"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:15:25","slug":"narc-launches-drip-irrigation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/narc-launches-drip-irrigation-project.html","title":{"rendered":"NARC launches drip irrigation project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Agriculture Research Centre (NARP) has launched a drip irrigation project to guide farmers on the efficient use of water, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drip-irrigation-system-to-be-installed-on-20000-acres.html\">Drip irrigation system to be installed on 20,000 acres<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pilot project covers an area of at least seven acres. It also comprises three components: citrus orchard on one acre, sprinkler orchards on 2.5 acres, and raised beds on 2.5 acres.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Munir Ahmad &#8211; Director of Climate Change, Alternate Energy and Water Resource Institute at NARC \u2013 said that only 40,000 acres out of Pakistan\u2019s total irrigated area of 20 million acres is under drip irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters that NARC has collaborated with various provincial and national research centres to adopt a scientific approach for developing water and energy resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/projects-identified-to-improve-irrigation-infrastructure.html\">Projects identified to improve irrigation infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Ahmad stressed the need to bring high value crops under sprinkle and drip irrigation as well as solar pumping irrigation. He requested the government to encourage private investment in a bid to locally manufacture drip irrigation devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Agriculture Research Centre (NARP) has launched a drip irrigation project to guide farmers on the efficient use of water, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Drip irrigation system to be installed on 20,000 acres The pilot project covers an area of at least seven acres. It also comprises three components: citrus orchard on one acre, sprinkler orchards on 2.5 acres, and raised beds on 2.5 acres. Dr Munir Ahmad &#8211; Director of Climate Change, Alternate Energy and Water Resource Institute at NARC \u2013 said that only 40,000 acres out of Pakistan\u2019s total irrigated area of 20 million acres is under drip irrigation. He told reporters that NARC has collaborated with various provincial and national research centres to adopt a scientific approach for developing water and energy resources. Read:\u00a0Projects identified to improve irrigation infrastructure Dr Ahmad stressed the need to bring high value crops under sprinkle and drip irrigation as well as solar pumping irrigation. He requested the government to encourage private investment in a bid to locally manufacture drip irrigation devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":45694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11160],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-narc-launches-drip-irrigation-project"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NARC launches drip irrigation project - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Agriculture Research Centre (NARP) has launched a drip irrigation project to guide farmers on the efficient use of water, a news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/narc-launches-drip-irrigation-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NARC launches drip irrigation project - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Agriculture Research Centre (NARP) has launched a drip irrigation project to guide farmers on the efficient use of water, a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/narc-launches-drip-irrigation-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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