2024-06-07 15:48:07
Reservoirs from dams for agricultural use quantity to three.3 billion m3 (Mr. Sadiki)
Rabat – The reservoirs of dams for agricultural use quantity to three.3 billion cubic meters (m3), i.e. a filling fee of 24%, in comparison with 23% the earlier yr, indicated the Minister of Agriculture, of Maritime Fisheries, Rural Growth and Water and Forests, Mohamed Sadiki.
Responding to a central query within the Home of Representatives on the present agricultural marketing campaign, Mr. Sadiki harassed that solely 700 million m3 have been provisionally allotted to irrigation schemes, in comparison with 3 billion in an peculiar yr.
The irrigated space in giant areas is estimated at 524,000 hectares, to that are added roughly 500,000 hectares deliberate for small and medium irrigation, the minister mentioned.
Certainly, the ministry takes care to watch the evolution of the water scenario on the degree of all of the basins, whereas giving precedence to timber and everlasting crops and limiting the areas of water-eating crops, assured Mr. Sadiki.
Additionally, the ministry goals to succeed in a million hectares irrigated by drip by 2030, as a part of the implementation of varied applications and funding tasks associated to irrigation. The world at the moment coated by such a irrigation, he mentioned, is 800,000 hectares.
Concerning complementary irrigation, the minister specified {that a} program to modernize irrigation networks is underway to valorize water, noting that the goal space quantities to 130,000 hectares.
2024-06-07 15:48:07