The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, signed this Thursday morning in Lanzarote, the 3rd amendment to the Agreement of Phase I of the Plan for improving efficiency and sustainability in irrigation, between the ministry and the State Mercantile Society of Agricultural Infrastructures (Seiasa).
After this signing, the PSOE of Lanzarote has denounced that "Coalición Canaria was lying intentionally when accusing the PSOE of losing the investment when the file expired. Not only were they lying about the loss of funds, but the reason why the signing of the project has been delayed has been precisely the delay in the transfer of land", said María Dolores Corujo, national deputy and general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote.
In this sense, Corujo has also pointed out that the investment planned for this project has increased by 10.4 million euros, going from the 14 million euros planned previously to having a total investment of 24.4 million euros from Next Generation funds, within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR). This addendum includes the project to modernize and improve the irrigation of the northeast area of Lanzarote, in the municipal districts of Tinajo and Teguise.
This initiative will allow the modernization of 300 hectares, mainly of horticultural crops, and will benefit 667 irrigators. For this, the construction of a seawater desalination plant by reverse osmosis (which will be located in the current northeast treatment plant of Lanzarote), a pumping station, a wind turbine, a pond and a reservoir, as well as an irrigation network is planned. In addition, the new facilities will have a remote measurement system and the impulsion will have a remote control system.
Corujo stressed that this project "will improve the efficient use of water, a vital issue in island spaces and will favor a more sustainable agriculture, since it will allow the use of unconventional water sources, the use of renewable energies, with the consequent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the reduction of the energy bill for irrigators; and promote generational change, by improving the quality of life of farmers".
