Operational Group: Reducing irrigation costs through energy efficiency and reducing water consumption, ensuring the competitiveness of sugar beet in Spain
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2018
- Assigned Budget 6.062.169,00 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Castilla y León; Castilla - La Mancha; País Vasco; Rioja, La
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
Description
This Task Force seeks to encourage farmers to adopt innovative measures that will reduce their energy bills for irrigation and optimize water consumption, in order to ensure the competitiveness and sustainability of the sugar beet sector following the abolition of the quota system in Europe in 2017 and the end of the current CAP period in 2020.
Objectives
- These surveys could reduce irrigation energy costs by 60 to 75%, but could be extrapolated to other irrigated crops where irrigation costs represent a high percentage of production costs.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: AIMCRA
- Coordinator/entity email: e.rosique@aimcra.es
Beneficiaries
- AIMCRA
Outsourced
- iNEA (Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Agrícola de la Compañía de Jesús en Valladolid)
- Moval Agroingenieria
- Universidad Internacional del Riego
- Sociedad Cooperativa Estrella de San Juan
- Recursos naturales de Castilla y León
- Encore Lab
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