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The Regional Government of Lambayeque, through the Regional Management of Agriculture, delivered to the farmers of Pacora a modern irrigation infrastructure valued at more than 22 million 800 thousand soles.
The work was inaugurated by the regional governor, Jorge Pérez Flores; and the regional manager of the sector, Patricia Ocampo Escalante, in a ceremony held in this jurisdiction.
The project, called Improvement of the Water Service for Irrigation of the Pacora Users Commission, includes the lining of the 9-kilometer 964-meter canal.
Likewise, the construction of 29 pedestrian walkways, 10 reinforced concrete vehicular bridges and 21 lateral intakes.
Likewise, the strengthening of the organization of the Commission and training of users in water management and distribution.
The project benefits 6,665 users, representing 10,175 inhabitants.
With this work, the irrigation of 4,241.30 hectares of crops such as rice, avocado, bread, mango, among others, will be improved.
Among the sectors benefited are El Faique, Sauce, El Cholo, Estiaje, La Huaca, Pájara, Benites, Tres Piedras, Poma and Pacora.
During the opening ceremony, the governor, Jorge Pérez Flores, said that this project is the result of the efforts of the farmers themselves who are carving out their own future.
He indicated that when he took office he promised to line 84 kilometers of canals and it is being fulfilled, after indicating that days ago he laid the first stone of the Sasape-Morrope Canal.
He said that in the La Leche valley there is an urgent need to enable hydraulic infrastructure such as La Calzada to move from problems to solutions.
He called on the population of the upper, middle and lower parts of the basin to agree to end extreme poverty and move away from subsistence agriculture to agro-export agriculture.
"Let's be promoters of our own development, we are experiencing water stress as a result of global warming and we need to dam water to produce food for the world," he remarked.
