With a budget of 2,542 million pesos for the year 2024, INDAP Ñuble will have almost 20 percent more resources to incorporate irrigation surfaces into the region, through the incorporation of new water sources and the repair and rehabilitation of canals.
This was announced by Fernanda Azócar, Regional Director of INDAP Ñuble, who highlighted that the increase in resources means that the region will increase the irrigated area to 2,500 hectares this season. “Our guidelines mandate us to convert the production of peasant family farming into a resilient and sustainable agriculture, so the provision of water sources and identification of irrigation is essential for efficient use, given the imminent shortage of this resource” , she highlighted.
The directive added that an agreement was made with the Regional Government of Ñuble with an investment of 1,000 million pesos, exclusively for the authorization of water sources, which is additional to the 1,500 million sectoral pesos.
The director of INDAP Ñuble also reported that work is being done to transversally increase the participation of women and young people up to 40 years of age in INDAP programs and thus reduce the gap in access to the tools provided by the entity based on additional scores in the contests. of irrigation for these segments of the population: “If last year the percentage of women who accessed irrigation instruments was 37% versus 63% of male participation, we hope that with these inclusions of gender and age in the contests, we can reverse this historic and abysmal gap in access, as requested by President Gabriel Boric,” the director pointed out.
Three contests
Currently there are three open irrigation competitions, which close between March 11 and 15.
As reported by Sergio Sepúlveda, Head of Development at INDAP Ñuble, “the importance of this call for competition is that this year we are making the calls very quickly since we hope that our farmers are certain of having “Irrigation before the start of the season, since it is a substantial element to carry out sustainable agriculture.”
The currently open contests are a call for Associative Irrigation contests, a call that has 500 million pesos of sectoral resources for irrigation organizations of small producers who are users of INDAP. This contest is open until March 15.
A second tender corresponds to the Minor Irrigation Works Program, for an amount of 562 million pesos that has financing shared between the Regional Government and INDAP. This contest is aimed at enabling water sources and has a closing date of March 15.
The third open tender corresponds to the Intrapred Irrigation Program, with an investment amount of 403 million pesos. In this case, the orientation is the modernization of irrigation for better use of this resource, and its closure is scheduled for March 11.
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