Received a report from their rice field residents began to experience drought, East Aceh Regent H Hasballah SH, bin HM Tbaib immediately lowered the heavy equipment to clean the irrigation network, Friday, February 23, 2018.
According to Bustami alias Gam deck of Alue Bu residents, Peureulak Barat Subdistrict, East Aceh, almost 65 hectares of rice fields of residents spread in several villages such as Tanjong Tualang, Gampong Beusa, Moen Geudoeng, Paya Teugat and Gampong Paya Lipah since last month began experiencing drought.
Even Bustami said, if Regent Rocky and Linud did not respond quickly to the complaints of the people, he feared dozens of rice fields residents are expected to fail to harvest. Moreover, the average rice field of citizens began to enter the period of conception. "As a result of not raining our fields began to drought, but Alhamdullah Regent Rocky immediately lowered the machine to clean the channel of the stream that the stopper so that the source of water began to irrigate our fields," said Bustami.
Connect Bustami, heavy equipment excavator type that passed down Regent Rocky to the location was forced to clean the river flow up to three kilometers with a long time, because the bushes that close the water source to the irrigation is very too severe. "Cleaning the Peureulak river takes a long time is estimated to be almost a week because the shrubs are already very severe, but now Alhamdulillah after the water has entered the irrigation, we can return to pompanisasi kesawah, eventually drought can be prevented," said Bustami.
As a farmer who only pays his life in the fields, he represents the Peureulak West Subdistrict community, thanked thousands of thanks to the Regent of Rocky and his deputy and the East Aceh Regency government who responded quickly and overcome the grievances of the people.