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The actions will benefit 284 comuneros and an irrigation area that harbors 435 hectares dedicated to the cultivation of olive, aromatic, almond and vine

The Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment today begins the construction of water infrastructures that will allow the start of the modernization of irrigation in the community of irrigators Alto de Lorca field, located in the hamlet of La Paca.

Specifically, it involves the creation of regulation ponds, a water pumping station and a pipeline.

The Minister of Water, Agriculture and Environment, Adela Martínez-Cachá, who today placed the first stone of the actions, stressed that "with these actions we are bringing the latest technologies to irrigation communities in the Region, since the goal Of the regional government is that the regional agriculture is the most technified and developed of the sector at the international level ".

The project includes the construction of a regulation pond with a useful capacity of 105,885 cubic meters, a pumping station powered by photovoltaic solar energy and a pipeline to connect the raft to the hydraulic network of the irrigation community.

Efficiency in regulation

The project includes the construction of a regulation pond with a useful capacity of 105,885 cubic meters, a pumping station powered by photovoltaic solar energy and a pipeline to connect the raft to the hydraulic network of the irrigation community.

This action will allow a correct and more efficient regulation of the available water volumes, allowing the storage of the scarce available water resources that amounts to an annual volume of 1,200 m3 / ha - in the periods in which they are not needed for their laying At the disposal of the comuneros.

The modernization of the community of irrigators will benefit a total of 284 comuneros and an irrigation area that harbors 435 hectares, dedicated mainly to the cultivation of olive, aromatic plants, almond and vine.

The budget for the works amounts to 647,350 euros, co-financed 63% with Feader funds.

The deadline is nine months.

These works are part of the irrigation modernization plan and improvement of irrigation infrastructures in the communities of irrigators and general communities of irrigators, contemplated in the Rural Development Program (PDR) 2014-2020.

Source: CARM