ISHS Acta Horticulturae 155: VIII Symposium on Horticultural Economics
ORGANIZATION OF A SMALL IRRIGATED LAND EXPLOITATION IN THE VEGAS ALTAS AREA OF THE GUADIANA RIVER, VILLANUEVA DE LA SERENA (BADAJOZ). |
| Author: | M. Cancho |
| Abstract:
This report, prepared from a geographical point of view, attempts to study an agricultural exploitation of 4,1494 hectares. It is managed based on a private contract according to which the benefits obtained are divided fifty-fifty; the owner of the exploitation carrying the cost of fertilizers, cultivating equipment, taxes, Social Security payments, etc. and half of the rest of the costs. For his part, the partner-cultivator contributes his labor and that of his livestock and to the other half of the costs, less those already indicated; he also functions as an independent businessman. This small exploitation, located in the "Torruco", at the confluence of the rivers Zújar and Guadiana, in spite of being in the area of influence of the irrigation systems of the Badajoz Plan (between the canals of Orella na and Zújar), the same as many others along the shores of the rivers, doesn't belong to nor benefit from the state works realized by the no longer existent National Institute of Colonization, (I.N.C.). The irrigation comes from the Zújar river by raising the water with a 2 C.V. motor from a well, and distributing it through buried tubes that repart the water by gravity thanks to a system of communicating vessels. In this manner, rich although excessivel sandy land is fertilized by water deposits of grand profundity. If we present this information referring only to one exploitation, it is because we consider that its system | |
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