NaanDanJain Pretends to promote these systems of irrigation in crops extensivos of Spain and Portugal

NaanDanJain Iberian, subsidiary for the Iberian Peninsula of the multinational NaanDanJain, pioneering company in the international field in technologies for irrigation, finishes to implant in the zone regable of the Channel of the Segarra Garrigues the first system of subterranean irrigation by dripping that installs in a finca commercial in Catalonia. Up to now the only irrigation by dripping that existed in agriculture extensiva in Catalonia was the superficial, being the aspersión the another forms of irrigation more advanced for crops like the corn, the cereal or the lucerne and the irrigation by gravity or by flood, the traditional system.

The installation has realised with a new machinery of technology tip, that finishes to incorporate the multinational to his equipment in the Iberian Peninsula, which allows the installation buried of pipes of irrigation by dripping to depths between 10 and 50 centimetres. In this project, NaanDanJain Iberian has had the collaboration of the distributor installer OnGrub, as well as with the participation of the director of the Department Agronómico of the multinational Kobi Shilo, that comes supervising personally in Spain during the two last campaigns the development of these new technologies of irrigation by dripping for crops extensivos, so much in aerial systems like undergrounds.

The intention of NaanDanJain is to promote these systems of irrigation in crops extensivos of Spain and Portugal, with the end to increase the productivity of these earths of lower value agronómico and the sustainability of the agriculture that develops in them, displacing progressively the irrigation by gravity or by flood, that is the less efficient in the consumption of water, and posing alternative to the aspersión that suppose greater performances and savings for the agriculturalist, so much in water, as in fertilizantes as in money.

Specifically, regarding the aspersión, the irrigation by dripping allows a saving estimated of water of the 20-30%. In the concrete case of the zone regable of the Segarra-Garrigues, the subterranean irrigation by dripping has diminished to near of the half the hydraulics needs: in front of the 6-7 litres by square metre and hour that need in aspersión, the designs of irrigation by dripping require on 3,2 litres, allowing greater surfaces of simultaneous irrigation for a same availability of water. “Habida Explains that the price of the water situates between 0,08 and 0,09 euros/m³, are speaking also of an important economic saving, especially in big fincas” aims Sergi Colomina, commercial delegate North of NaanDanJain Iberian.

Regarding the aspersión, the irrigation by dripping also allows in this type of crops extensivos a saving in fertilizantes that estimates in 20%, and increases the performance by hectare. Likewise, it diminishes the damages by animals, minimises treatments (when diminishing apparition of bad grasses), environingingmental improvements and of the terrain.

The channel of Segarra Garrigues irrigates 70.150 hectares: 47.110 in total endowment and 23.040 with irrigation of support. In total endowment the crops are extensivos: corn, lucerne and cereal and frutales. In endowment of support are basically olivos and almendros.