The actions carried out covering an area of 287 hectares and benefit 356 irrigators Bullas
The Community and the irrigators of inheriting from the Rafa-Well of the Watchtowers of Bullas have completed the actions included in the Improvement Plan, Modernisation and Consolidation of Irrigation in the irrigation area comprising 287 hectares of irrigated land.
The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, today unveiled the latest measures taken that have allowed, he said, "to improve the irrigation infrastructure of the entire irrigable area" of the irrigation community, consisting primarily of apricot crops peach.
Cerda said that infrastructure "are profitable and quality of life given to irrigators," who "have done an exemplary process of modernization."
The works, which involves an investment of over one million euros, have been funded 50 percent by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water and the irrigation of the Rafa-Well of the Watchtowers.
Implementation of Improvement Plan "has facilitated the introduction of drip irrigation system around the irrigation area of the Community of Irrigators," said Cerda, who noted that these actions "will allow water saving and improved their management. "
These works will increase and allow irrigation efficiency, reduce the amount of sales made to promote soil fertility, increase crop productivity, and facilitate the work of watering and fertilizing.
Under this plan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water designed and executed the construction of reservoirs to regulate the Watchtowers, High House and excerpted from Rafa, with a combined capacity exceeding 100,000 cubic meters, and other works as primary distribution network and two water filtration stations rings.
Source: CARM