{"id":18877,"date":"2023-07-05T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=18877"},"modified":"2023-07-05T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:59:22","slug":"spains-efficient-irrigation-systems-reach-79-of-the-total-irrigated-area-with-olive-groves-being-the-crop-with-the-most-irrigation-extent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2023\/07\/05\/spains-efficient-irrigation-systems-reach-79-of-the-total-irrigated-area-with-olive-groves-being-the-crop-with-the-most-irrigation-extent\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s efficient irrigation systems reach 79% of the total irrigated area,\u00a0with\u00a0olive groves being the\u00a0crop with the most irrigation extent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Efficient irrigation systems in Spain have grown by 19% in the last 10 years, accounting for 79% of the total area. Of these, localized irrigation set ups, the most used had an outreach of 2,102,528 hectares in 2022 or 55.8% of the total irrigated area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agricultural area with irrigation systems decreased by 2.75% (3,771,107 hectares at the end of 2022) compared to 2021. This is mainly due to the lower availability of water endowments in certain areas<\/u><\/a> of the country for agricultural work. Today, irrigated agriculture represents 22.4% of the total cultivated land in Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This evolution towards localized irrigation, which is a more efficient system in the use of water resources, is a consequence of the irrigation policies developed in recent years by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, aimed at achieving a more sustainable agriculture and with lower water consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This data was collected in the Survey on Crop Surfaces and Yields in Spain (ESYRCE) of 2022, which contains as its main novelty the finding that the Spanish<\/u> olive grove<\/u><\/a> has already become the most irrigated plant species. The specific study on the typification of irrigation analyzes the different types of cultivation and the distribution among the different autonomous communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study shows that the two main irrigation systems are the localized and the gravity-based. The latter has been reduced by 15.79% in a decade, reaching 793,402 hectares (21% of the total). The sprinkler irrigation systems total 562,579 hectares (14.9%), while the automotive industry is implanted in 312,597 hectares (8.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, the olive grove has been ranked for the first time as the crop group with the largest irrigated area, with 866,736 hectares, 22.98% of the total. Until now, cereals <\/u><\/a>were the crops with the largest extent in irrigation, but in 2022 the food group, such as rice, experienced a decrease in plantations, due to drought. Cereals become the second group with the largest irrigated area, 843,022 hectares, 22.35% of the total, followed by non-citrus fruit trees (428,627 hectares and 11.37% of the total) and vineyards (397,452 hectares, 10.54% of the total).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With regard to woody crops, the almond tree<\/u><\/a> has experienced a notable increase in its irrigated area since 2017, more than 77%, due to the boom in the implementation of this crop in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ESYRCE also provides information on the type of irrigation used for each crop group. In particular, in the group of vegetables, the localized irrigation system (52.57% of the total) stands out, where the greenhouse area is included. The rest of the irrigation systems are also important in this group, especially sprinklers (20.17 % of the total), followed by automotive (14%) and gravity irrigation (13.1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andalusia is the autonomous community with the largest irrigated area, 1,101,936 hectares, 31.15% of the total of its cultivated land. Behind are Castilla-La Mancha (585,377 hectares, 15.9% of the total), Castilla y Le\u00f3n (451,989 hectares, 12.7% of the total) and Aragon (414,864 hectares, 23.35% of the total).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you take into account the weight that irrigation has on the entire cultivated area of each territory, the Canary Islands is the community with the highest percentage, 59.7% (26,246 hectares), followed by the Valencian Community, where it represents 44.8% of its agriculture (279,063 hectares).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: agroinformacion.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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