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The action covers an area of 500 hectares in the Community Irrigation Librilla, which consists of 1,850 farmers

The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and Librila Mayor, Francisco Javier Montalbán, today placed the first stone of the modernization works of irrigation in the Community Irrigation Librilla, sector IV of the irrigation area of ​​transfer Tajo-Segura, which has a budget of EUR 4 million co-financed by the EAFRD, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the region.

The Community Irrigation Librilla, chaired by Peter Legaz, consists of 1,850 farmers and covers an area of ​​2,952 hectares mainly for the production of citrus and apricots.

The works in this sector affect an area of ​​500 hectares and, once completed, may begin the other three sectors of irrigation, with the comprehensive modernization of the irrigation area will culminate postrasvase.

The Minister of Agriculture and Water noted that the start of this action represents "the last of the great works of postrasvase regarding the improvement and modernization of irrigation" and its guarantee, he added, "is based on the legal certainty which has the Tajo-Segura ".

Cerdá remarked that these works are intended to "reduce water losses and improve the current conditions of irrigation water service to all the companies in this sector plots" by replacing the network of ditches on the other pressure for drip irrigation management.

The Ministry in 2007 and built regulating reservoir 'Doña Vicenta', in which the precise flow are deposited in this area watering 110,000 cubic meters, amounting to 990,000 euros.

These actions of modernization of irrigation are included in the Rural Development Programme of the Region of Murcia that promotes and finances the transformation of traditional irrigation to modern irrigation management and localized.

In the Region of Murcia has acted on over 150,000 hectares of irrigated land, representing 87 percent of the regional irrigable area.

Source: CARM