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After more than 20 years of buried drip irrigation, Regaber now applies it in corn
Drafting Interempresas31/05/2013
For more than 20 years Regaber began to use irrigation drip buried and since then, benefits of the droppers and accumulated experience, lets count to barcelosa company with a wide experience in this technology.
They are many the thousands of hectares that in the actuality are irrigating in the Iberian Peninsula with drippers under earth of Regaber and the changes in the agricultural market, has directed them to a crop like the corn, that historically had irrigated basically with aspersión and simply by flood.
The upward prices of the power and a market that respects the one of the corn, has directed to the agriculturalist, to opt by technological solutions much more advanced, that allow him reduce considerably the costs of power, establishing in 40% of saving as it appears in the conclusions of the National Congress of Irrigations celebrated the year happened in Albacete comparing the irrigation by aspersión in front of the irrigation by dripping. On the other hand, thanks to the best control of the crop, by means of a correct fertirrigación, are increasing the productions in more than 10%, without forgetting the reduction of the problems generated by the excess of humidity that produces when dampening all the plant in an aerial irrigation.
At present, It is transforming an old quarry of gravel in a field of corn, irrigated with the last technology, in concrete, this project is realising it the company Regs of the Segrià of Lleida, the one who achieves to contribute a positive impact in the environingingmental evaluation of the quarry at the same time that will allow to achieve a production of corn with the maximum guarantee of success.
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