BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Droughts triggered by sustained hot weather and low precipitation since July have negatively impacted agricultral production in many areas of central China’s Hunan Province.
In response to the urgent need for irrigation, power departments and companies spared no effort in setting up drought relief power lines, helping to ensure production and harvest.
Photo shows State Grid Huaihua Power Supply Company helps install electricity meter, check drainage and irrigation lines to ensure irrigation activities in Shun Fu village, Zhong Fang county of central China’s Hunan province.
Li Xianhua, a local farmer in Jie Guanting village, Hunan’s Heng Nan county that grows rice of 140 mu (about 9.33 hectars), felt relieved seeing pumped water diverted into his paddies.
A whole year's hard work could go in vain if there’s no water, he said, expressing gratitude to power company’s timely service for ensuring power supply for water pumping.
The team worked fast upon villagers’ request, ensuring electricity supply, setting up and repairing agricultural irrigation power lines and equipment in help with drought relief, said Li Gaosheng, director of Hengnan county Huaqiao power supply office of State Grid Hunan Electric Power Company Limited, a subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China, the country's largest state-owned utility company.
Photo shows State Grid Xiangxi Power Supply Company helps ensure water-pumping and irrigation power supply in Ya Baodong village, Liao Jiaqiao town, Feng Huang county of central China’s Hunan province.
Temporary transformers for pumping were set up, 591 vehicles and 7,214 times of personnel, 371 inspection equipment were dispatched for ensuring power supply for key drought-relief links in Hunan, according to a source with State Grid Hunan branch.
(Edited by Niu Huizhe with Xinhua Silk Road, niuhuizhe@xinhua.org)
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