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The Director General of Irrigation and Rural Development, Julio Bernal, met yesterday with members of the Community of Irrigators 'Reservoir Argos' to inform them of the advantages of modernizing the irrigation area of ​​the entity, which covers 1,000 hectares and has 1,100 villagers .

The Council of Ministers on November 30 approved the Plan of Improvement and modernization of irrigation Irrigation Communities Reservoir regulated by Argos, which includes an investment of 11 million euros, financed by 70 percent with European funds ERDF, to run through the State Corporation SEIASA.

The Community Irrigation cited would have to provide 15 percent of funding.

The CEO said that "in this time of crisis is difficult to get financing on this scale."

Therefore encouraged over 200 people at the meeting to "meditate properly exposed on the technical aspects and go for the consolidation of their land in the future through this project."

The responsible regional irrigators reminded the need to decide as soon as possible, because, he said, "this project has an expected running about two years, and European funds to co-finance actions must be fully justified and paid before 31 December 2015 ".

Bernal responded to the arguments of the members of the association Ardevas, contrary to modernization plan, which "Calasparra lands are losing value by the abandonment of the traditional orchard, as a result of the low yields of a backward agriculture, the high rate age among the community and lack of generational change. "

He also stressed that "more than 85 percent of the irrigated areas of the region have seen modernization activities that allow them to optimize their water resources, improving production yields and revaluing their land."

Meanwhile, the Irrigation Community undertook to re-state the project in General Assembly, which approved it in their day, and resubmitted to the approval of the majority decision of the community, according to its statutes.

Source: CARM