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The editorial "High and dry" (Business Line, March 9), rightly pointed out that "the irrigation potential remains unrealised and there is nothing to suggest that this is likely to change anytime soon". We cry ourselves hoarse over the fall in agricultural production, rise in prices of agri-products, impoverishment and suicides of farmers, and so on. But the governments at the Centre and the States are not doing quite enough to bring vast tracts of land under irrigation.

Innumerable projects inaugurated with much fanfare are yet to be completed. Uninterrupted water supply is the basic ingredient for high agricultural production. If that is not provided, farmers' prosperity, optimum level of employment in the farm sector and increase in yield per acre will remain a far cry.

S. Ramakrishnasayee

Ranipet

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