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Indonesia works to improve rice irrigation

The Indonesian government plans to continue building dams to irrigate paddy fields as existing facilities can irrigate only 11 percent, or 780,000 ha, of paddy fields, according to a recent broadcast.
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Jakarta (VNA) – The Indonesian government plans to continue building dams toirrigate paddy fields as existing facilities can irrigate only 11 percent, or780,000 ha, of paddy fields, according to a recent broadcast.

After58 dams are completed, the percentage will be 20, still a small the figure.Hence, more dams are needed to irrigate paddy fields.

Accordingto the Central Statistics Agency, the area of paddy fields stood at 7.1 millionha in 2018, down from 7.75 million ha a year earlier.

TheIndonesian government has extended funds since 2015 to develop villageinfrastructure, such as roads, village markets, irrigation networks andretention basins.

Thegovernment disbursed village funds worth 20.7 trillion rupiah (1.4 billion USD)in 2015 and raised the amount two-fold in 2016. The amount of this kind of fundsin 2018 and 2019 reached 60 rupiah trillion.

Theinfrastructure built using village funds covers 158,000 km of roads, 6,900 marketsand 1.02 million metres of bridges.

Nearly 3,194km of roads include those built near the borders between Indonesia and itsneighbours like Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Timor Leste.–VNA
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