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Plan a more sustainable irrigation.

That is what farmers can now do through a mobile application.

The app has been launched through the Irriman Life + project, which coordinates the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) and has had the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries.

The application, which is free and can be downloaded through app.irrimanlife.eu, allows farmers to plan a sustainable irrigation according to the current water availability.

According to the project coordinator, Alejandro Pérez Pastor, farmers will be able to plan irrigation both when they know the maximum availability of water and a 40% reduction of it.

In turn, farmers can easily consult a watering diary for each farm and have at a glance the accumulated irrigation, the amount to irrigate depending on the water supply, the number of risks and the time of them.

Analyzing the recommended irrigation depending on the readings of the weather stations closest to the irrigation farm is another feature of this application, which allows to make the best forecast of irrigation for crops.

So far the application of irrigation planning is done for woody crops such as peach, nectarine, Paraguayan, table grapes and citrus, although the goal is to increase the database of the application and include crops horticultural

The application has been designed by the company Pristalica in which a graduate of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena works.

According to Pérez Pastor, the main advantage of this application is that farmers "can know the availability of water and how to distribute it to provide it at critical times," he said.

The Irriman Life + project (LIFE13 ENV / ES / 000539) is co-financed by the LIFE + Program of the European Union and fulfills the objective of implementing, demonstrating and disseminating a sustainable irrigation strategy based on deficit irrigation to promote its acceptance to large scale in Mediterranean agroecosystems, characterized by the scarcity of water, without affecting its quality.

The Minister of Water and Agriculture, Miguel Ángel del Amor, and the rector of the UPCT, Alejandro Díaz, attended the presentation of the app, which was also attended by representatives of the agricultural sector.

Source: UPCT