The Suffering of Sigedang and Kapilaler Worsens
Friday, August 26, 2005
SOONER or later the words on the rice storage barn of Delanggu village will be just a memory. You only need to look at the irrigation water supply that stands at just a few inches. In the dry season, farmers have to rent water pumps at Rp6,000 an hour. My rice fields have now become dependent on rain water for irrigation, says 36-year-old Martono, a farmer from Kwarasan village in the Juwiring subdistrict of Klaten regency.
The people in the area,
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