Agriculture and Irrigation of Crops

This area is also part of Cholistan but most of the area is irrigated.
The farmers in the near villages irrigates their land with canal or tubewell water. Wastewater is not used for irrigation around these villages."
The above mentioned climate makes agriculture without irrigation virtually impossible. Shortly after the construction of a sewerage system in 1965, farmers started using untreated waste water pumped from the newly constructed disposal station for irrigation. In 1979 more pumps were installed in and around the town to dispose of blocked waste water, after the sewerage system had collapsed because of heavy monsoon rains. This resulted in the development of more waste water-irrigated sites. Currently there are three main sites with a total irrigated area of over 130 ha. The main crops grown with waste water are vegetables (in particular cauliflower) cotton, and fodder"
The irrigation canal that irrigates much of the land around Haroonabad, is called 4R. This canal was built by the British government in the early 1920s.

Picture of a cotton field in a village of Haroonabad