They will invest 51 thousand MDP for irrigation technology

President Claudia Shinbom said that the federal government will invest more than 51 billion pesos to travel from temporary irrigation to technical irrigation systems.

There are 51,830 million peso we will invest in the six -year period of 200,000 hectares of agricultural irrigation. What will we get this? The Federal President explained: “The largest productivity in this field, meaning that more production can be obtained with less water, and allocating 2800 million cubic meters.”

He pointed out that the work of the federal government will be “a lot, a lot of conversation” with farmers, to organize them and be able to build irrigation systems in their conspiracies.

Xinbom said it is expected to include 225,000 aqueous users for cultivation.

For its part, The holder of the National Water Committee (Conagua), Everen Morales, He explained that the goal is the technique of more than 200,000 hectares throughout the six years.

It is very important, because 76 % of the water consumed in the country is water that is consumed, specifically in this field. “

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Among the procedures to be implemented, Morales included infrastructure technology.

Only in 2025, more than 315 km of channels will be covered, this will represent a savings of about 25 % of the water you currently consume. “

Also tubes are some channels, which cover this year 45 km, with an estimate of 40 % of the consumed water.

In addition to installing automatic and manual gates, as well as measurement systems with remote measurement.

Regarding technology at the parcel level, he pointed out that in 2025 more than 10500 hectares will be level, “this will allow us to irrigate more uniform. Currently, he does not generate some flood crops, which also generates a large waste.”

He added at the morning conference, depending on each crop, multilateral pipes and tubes will be installed inside the conspiracies, and depending on each crop, irrigation systems will be installed with drip, spraying, spraying and flour repair.

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