As the slack farming season comes, Northeast China’s Jilin province has committed to invest 7.05 billion yuan ($1.15 billion) to improve its agricultural water conservation and ensure stable yields, to safeguard against drought or waterlogging.

An excavator removes mud from an irrigation channel in Yushu city, Northeast China’s Jilin province, on Nov 10, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]

The fund is expected to ensure the yields of around 4 million mu (2,667 square kilometers) of farmland and improve the irrigation of approximately 3.99 million mu.

Farmers lay a drip irrigation pipeline through farmland in Tongyu county, Baicheng city, in Northeast China’s Jilin province on Nov 11, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]