China: County Tobacco Subcompany Technically Accepts Irrigation Project

Source from:  Qujing Tobacco Monopoly Administration 01/14/2013

Qilin County Tobacco Subcompany of Qujing City Tobacco Company in southwest China’s tobacco-producing Yunnan Province has technically accepted the Eastern Mountain Irrigation Project after conducting acceptance appraisal in cooperation with the local water conservancy bureau and the local Communist Party Disciplinary Inspection Commission.

The Eastern Mountain Irrigation Project is one of the projects of infrastructure facilities for leaf tobacco production built by the local tobacco industry.

On December 17-18, staffers with Qilin County Tobacco Subcompany, in cooperation with officials with the with the local water conservancy bureau and the local Communist Party Disciplinary Inspection Commission, conducted acceptance appraisal of the Eastern Mountain Irrigation Project.

The Eastern Mountain Irrigation Project is intended for an area with relatively concentrated plots of cultivated land, where the central part of dry land has virtually no access to water supply, and where irrigation is heavily reliant on water transportation with manpower or with ox carts or horse-driven carriages.

In efforts to fundamentally improve conditions for irrigation of the cultivated land, Qilin County Tobacco Subcompany, on the basis of sufficient deliberation and careful organization, actively applied to higher authorities for the construction of the Eastern Mountain Irrigation Project.

With approval by the local government, the construction of the Eastern Mountain Irrigation Project was started in March 2012 and was completed in late July of the same year.

The completion of the construction of the Eastern Mountain Irrigation Project has enabled the cultivated land covered by it to have sufficient access to irrigation, has enabled it to become more resistant to both drought and flooding, and has contributed to ensuring the high quality and high yield of grain and economic crops grown on it. Enditem