The Ca Mau provincial People’s Committee has approved a project to build an irrigation system, Sub region III, north of Ca Mau province.

The provincial Agriculture and Rural Development Department is the investor of this 360 billion VND project. The funds will come from selling Government bonds. The project is to dredge 35 kilometers of existing dyke and build a new dyke of 372 km long and 65 sluices.

Once completed, the project will prevent sea water from penetrating into crop land, reserve fresh water in the dry season while draining waterlogged fields during the rainy season for agricultural production and environmental protection.

The project is expected to begin this year and to be operational in 2011.

Translated by Duy Minh