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Regional Government of Lambayeque and Proinversion signed a key agreement to ensure the overalls of the lemon dam and transfer works that will allow the integral development of the Olmos project.The Minister of Economy and Finance, Raul Perez Reyes, participated in the signing of the commission agreement for the new granting of the Olmos project works between the regional government of Lambayeque and Proinversion, carried out in the city of Chiclayo, in Lambayeque.
Through this agreement, Proinversion will assume the hiring and supervision of the technical studies of preinversion for the overaining of the lemon dam, as well as the design, conduction and development of the private investment promotion process under the public-private partnership scheme (app).
The development of agriculture in the north of the country depends on the sustainable use of water. From the MEF we guarantee the sustainability of the Olmos project and the water security necessary to boost agriculture, agro -export and employment in Lambayeque, said Minister Perez Reyes.
The new APP scheme will include, in addition to the overevation of the lemon dam, the construction of a definitive shot, the authorization of the lateral section of the trans -Andean tunnel, auxiliary works for sediment control, riverside defense and the relocation of the Norperuano pipeline section that crosses the prey vessel, and additionally the operation and maintenance of the entire hydraulic system and infrastructure of the hydraulic system and infrastructure of the hydraulic system and infrastructure project.
The minister also explained that, given the end of the concession contract in force on September 25, the Special Project Olmos Tinajones (PEOT) will temporarily assume the operation of the system with technical, legal and financial support of the State. This measure will be formalized by an emergency decree that will transfer the operational and maintenance functions to the PEOT, while a new tender for the integral concession of the system is launched.
Perez Reyes stressed that the first phase of Olmos allowed to irrigate more than 43,000 hectares, transforming the desert into a fertile agro -export valley, with more than US $ 3 billion in private investment, an annual agricultural production close to US $ 1 billion and a significant reduction in poverty in the region.
And that is only the beginning. The following phases will incorporate up to 120 thousand hectares additional to irrigation, generating thousands of jobs, attracting new investment, diversifying the regional economy and contributing currencies to the country, he said.
The minister said that Olmos is a symbol of decentralized development and joint work between the State, regional governments and the private sector. Today we take a firm step to ensure water, employment and progress for Lambayeque and for all of Peru, he concluded.
The regional governor of Lambayeque, Jorge Perez Flores; the Executive Director of Proinversion, Luis del Carpio Castro; and officials of the Regional Government, the MEF and Proinversion.
