📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI) reported that the sector has been satisfactorily completing the actions undertaken by the Government in order to mitigate the effects of the El Nino Phenomenon (FEN) on agricultural activity. With this, more than one million families will benefit from a set of initiatives and interventions, aimed at supplying water for agriculture and livestock, which will guarantee food security.
Through the information and awareness campaign "Sowing Water, We Harvest Life", the ministry revealed that more than 1.3 million families, as well as more than 5.11 million head of cattle, have benefited from the rapid intervention of MIDAGRI which, this time, reached the high Andean areas, where it identified and attended to 719,820 hectares dedicated to agricultural and subsistence activity.
The head of the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), Jorge Ganoza Roncal, reported that, as part of the actions undertaken by MIDAGRI to reduce the impact of the water deficit in the high Andean areas, the technical team is working on the installation of 2,859 modern hydroponic modules for the benefit of 14 thousand beneficiaries from 09 regions.
The official explained that the benefited farmers will receive technical assistance and training, as part of the components for the proper use of this system that will help the cultivation of vegetables, fruit trees and aromatic herbs, intended for family consumption and encourage healthy eating.
Ganoza Roncal said that, as scheduled by INIA (within the framework of D.U. 030-2023), the technicians and specialists must complete the installation of the modules on December 28, in 41 provinces and 131 districts in the regions of Apurímac, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cusco, Huancavelica, Junín, Pasco, Puno and Tacna.
He explained that the total investment amounts to S/ 16.7 million and that the installation is in charge of the specialists of the 07 experimental stations of the INIA, and that the structures are being located in the crop protection modules (phytoawnings) that Agro Rural will install, as a joint intervention strategy of the sector.
"In this intervention of MIDAGRI, a complementary and shared work is carried out between Agro Rural and INIA in order to increase productivity and optimize spaces for the cultivation of vegetables for self-consumption, with the least amount of water," said the official.
Finally, the head of INIA explained that these pyramidal hydroponic modules will serve producers in the areas that will be affected by the FEN, in order to efficiently use water resources, for the production of leafy vegetables such as lettuce, chard, spinach, Chinese onion, basil and will be able to obtain up to eight harvests a year.
