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The Coitarm supports the efficient management of the water in the Murcia crops
18/06/2009
June 18, 2009
The College of agricultural technical engineers in the region of Murcia has participated actively in the celebration of XXVII Congress of irrigation, which is held until tomorrow under the slogan 'irrigation, development engine and source of food', through its President, Irene Guillén Luna, who is in charge of moderating several technical papers.
According to Guillén Moon, "the fact of carrying out this type of meetings facilitates the exchange of information between practitioners involved in the research in this area, as well as the start-up knowledge of this information for the agricultural producers murciano can see high economic costs are reduced".
"Also it is also a special event because the agriculture sector is a strategic positioning in the murcian economy." "And as a result, the introduction of any improvements in the irrigation infrastructure is a key piece to make more competitive agricultural production," according to noted the President of the Coitarm.
In these processes the water becomes the determining factor for growth. The region of Murcia has positioned itself in recent years at the head of the effective management of this resource, even though it is a scarce commodity. It is also the first community of Spain and Europe in water reuse for irrigation with more than 100 hm3.
That is why the implementation of sophisticated techniques to allow that irrigated agriculture will become an engine of development and growth capable of picking up an important part of the economy of the region, as well as a reference in the management of their surfaces of irrigation water saving; that gets 90 percent of the total production and that, in turn, translates into a few exports amounting to 20 per cent of the total number of Spain.
