The president indicated that “the supply is not going to be suspended.” He called for generating long-term conditions for the agricultural sector.
President Luis Lacalle Pou assured that “water is guaranteed” and indicated that “the supply will not be suspended”, despite the crisis Which affects Uruguay on the water issue and called build “a comprehensive irrigation policy”, that is in the medium and long term.
After the inauguration of a rations plant of the Rural Union of Flowers, Lacalle Pou He referred to the water deficit that the country is going through and insisted that the service will not be suspended and recalled that “emergency works are being carried out to dam fresh water.” In this sense, he insisted: “water is guaranteed, what must be measured is quality.”
With regard to irrigation, the president was in favor of providing “stimuli and incentives” from the Executive to the agricultural sector. By way of example, he specified that “it is so that the producer can say ‘I invest this'”, noting that it is usually expensive, but profitable in the long term.
Lacalle Pou endorses “a national and comprehensive policy” of irrigation
When analyzing the consequences generated by the drought, Lacalle Pou stated: “We should have a national policy regarding water and consequently irrigation”. In this context, he recalled that “we have laws and experience”, recalling the Forestry Law. And he regretted that it had not been done sooner, noting: “In the crisis we remember what we lack.”
In this regard, he insisted that if Uruguay manages to establish an irrigation policy “in the medium and long term”, not only will it not be so affected by a new drought, but the benefit will be much greater. “If the agricultural-livestock sector manages to have a massive water and irrigation policy, It is like putting a territory above our country”, highlighted the president, while, with a view to the future, he stated that “there is the next challenge we have in productivity”.
Source: Ambito
