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It is the longest canal of Pakistan. This Canal caters for an area of 2.3 million acres which is nearly equivalent to the entire Sindh area settled on Guddu Barrage alone. 1858 Rohri Canal Sukkur Barrage: Indus: 10,887 2,600,000 Cotton, wheat and sugar-cane are the main crops grown on this canal system. Nasrat Canal (Sada Wah) [7] Sukkur ...
The Kachhi Canal Project is a 499-km long canal project situated in the Baluchistan and Punjab Provinces of Pakistan. It starts from Taunsa Barrage at Indus River and terminates in Baluchistan. The canal provides sustainable irrigation water supply to 720,000 acres of agricultural land in Baluchistan and 30,000 acres of land in Punjab.
Pakpattan Canal is an irrigation canal in central Punjab, Pakistan. The canal is extracted from Sulemanki Headworks. [1] The canal is named after Pakistani city of ...
Sukkur Barrage is used to control water flow in the River Indus for the purposes of irrigation and flood control. This barrage which is the backbone of the economy of the entire country enables water to flow through what was originally a network of seven canals 9,923 kilometres (6,166 mi) long, feeding the largest irrigation system in the world, with more than 7.63 million acres of irrigated ...
Pages in category "Canals in Pakistan" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Lahore Canal (Urdu/Punjabi: لاہور نہر) is a canal that runs through the east of the city of Lahore, Punjab in Pakistan. It diverges from the Bambawali-Ravi-Bedian (BRB) Canal. This 37 miles (60 km) long waterway was initially built by the Mughals. It was then upgraded by the British in 1861.
The canal system fed by the barrage initially consisted of Muzaffargarh and Dera Ghazi Khan Khan canals. The former was completed in 1960 and is in operation since then, while the latter although opened in 1958 continued to remain under construction in some later years. TP Link canal was added in 1970, as a component work.
As soon as the modern canal system was built on the Indus River and the Sukkur Barrage was constructed in 1932, the inflow of river water decreased, which affected its agriculture and the Keti Bandar lost its glory. The trade and management of Keti Bandar was with the Hindu community, according to a WWF report, after the creation of Pakistan ...