Staff Reporter
Peshawar
The District Administration Peshawar along with Town Municipal Administration and local police undertook the exercise to eliminate injurious vegetables and crops being irrigated via sewerage water. A survey was conducted through the revenue administration to identify and map areas where vegetables were being irrigated through waste water.
An operation was conducted against this practice on the orders of Commissioner Peshawar Division, Mr. Amjad Ali Khan. Machinery was used to eliminate crops including mustards, cabbage, garlic and fodder being irrigated through polluted water. Around 30 acres of agricultural land by affluent water was leveled by the Administration in the suburbs of Peshawar City. “More than 30 acres of insanitary agricultural foliage destroyed by District Administration Peshawar today”
Muhammad Ali Asghar DC Peshawar said. He also said that “In the previous week around 13 acres of polluted vegetables were destroyed by District Administration Peshawar and this activity is a step toward provision of safe and healthy agricultural products to the citizens”. He hoped that this administrative intervention will sensitize farmers to abandon practices that pose serious threat to public health. He directed all assistant commissioners to undertake awareness campaigns in collaboration with Agriculture Extension Department to educate farmers to adopt safe practices to irrigate and wash their produce.
