ISLAMABAD: A United Arab Emirates (UAE) based company, which provides water treatment solutions for agriculture purposes, on Tuesday offered its services to Pakistan for making its six-million hectors (14.826 million acres) saline land cultivable and overcome the shortage of useable water.
Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, Nazar M Gondal in a meeting here with the delegates of Magnetic Technologies, Dubai (UAE) said the government was open to introduction of latest agriculture technologies for treatment of brackish underground water in certain areas of the country.
Pakistan’s water resources are often plagued by salinity and industrial and municipal pollution. Spatial changes of ground water quality indicate saline water intrusion towards fresh groundwater pockets. Temporal changes of groundwater quality also show deterioration of water quality over long periods.
Reportedly, less than 50 per cent of Indus basin has useable water for agriculture. Out of 143 outfall drains of the Indus basin, the effluent quality of 53 drains is useable, 46 are marginal and 44 hazardous.
The minister said there was about six million hectors of saline land available in Pakistan. He added that making such a huge amount of land cultivable would definitely bring about a very positive change in the agricultural sector of the country. The minister urged the visiting delegates to provide at least two devices for testing purposes so that the results were observed before entering into any deal with the company.
The company claims that Magnetic Technologies Corner (MTC) of Dubai, UAE is presently operative in more than 25 countries in the world. MTC Magnetic Solutions (MMS) unit is an inline device designed to pass water through a magnetic field of high gauss strength. Magnetic treatment of water elevates the pH that has the effect of reducing corrosion tendencies.
Farid Uddin, Director International operations told the News that the technology of desalinization of soil water would help boost crop yield and reduce the requirement of inputs especially chemical fertilizers.
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