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Agricultural water use is growing in all Spain, except in Valencia and Extremadura
20/05/2011
May 20, 2011
The volume of water from irrigation used in farms grew up in all communities during 2009, except in the region of Valencia and Extremadura regions who consumed the 9.1 and 9.4 per cent, respectively, of the total of the 15.909 cubic are employed in the field. This figure represents an increase of 3.9% over the previous year, according to data published by the National Institute of statistics (INE). By autonomous regions, Andalusia was the most consumed (23.1% of the total), after registering an increase of 3.7% over the previous campaign, followed by Aragon (14.5%), Castilla y León (13.6%) and Castilla - La Mancha (11.3%).
In addition to Andalusia, in the year 2009 increased the use of water from the year earlier in all the autonomous communities except in the region of Valencia and Extremadura.
By types of cultivation, the herbaceous (cereals, legumes and fodder crops) absorbed 47.7 per cent of the volume of total water, with an increase of 10.4% over the previous year. On the other hand, potatoes and vegetables were the crops with a lower cost (7.4% of the total), and also recorded a decrease of 8.1% in relation to a year earlier.
