The National Party legislator believes that with the generation of new dams it would be possible to irrigate thousands of hectares in the country.
He Senator of the National Party (PN), Sebastián Da Silvapromotes a proposal for an “irrigation shock” that could increase the economy by up to 4 percentage points. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Uruguayin anticipating new droughts and expand cultivated areas.
The nationalist legislator said this Tuesday on radio Sarandí that with “four or five” new dams in certain strategic points, “a world of hectares” could be irrigated throughout the national territory.
“We planted 1 million or so hectares, which is the Uruguayan dryland agricultural area, plus rice, and of that area only 40,000 hectares are the gold mega-grids that take advantage of the plans. Comap (Investment Law Enforcement Commission) and irrigate with a pivot,” said the senator.
“He Uruguayan countryside It is heterogeneous, it has the super-gold mesh, the platinum mesh, the family businesses and then there is a group of countrymen, who are the ones that I defend,” said Da Silva, who explained that the latter “do not have the capacity to make investments millionaires that involves building a dam and putting in the pivot and putting in the electrical system.
On the other hand, Da Silva understands that to promote a new irrigation policy at the national level “we must take the politicians off the table” and “put in the Baqueanos, those who know how to irrigate,” since he points out that in the Senate Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries Commission “unfortunately” only him, who is also a rural producer, and perhaps someone else “knows what they are talking about.”
“Mujica had a world of money and absolute majorities, and he didn’t do it”
Da Silva understands that there are good examples in Chili and in USA of irrigation systems similar to the one proposed, and reproaches the former president of the Republic, José Mujicathat “having had a world of money, since he was president of the bonanza, and having had absolute majorities, he did not do it.”
“He didn’t do it, he curled up with (the project) Aratirí“said Da Silva, who added that “at that time there was money that is scarce today,” referring to the inflow of foreign currency.
Source: Ambito
