The Spanish Programme of Improvement and Modernisation of Traditional Irrigation Systems - Water and Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies - page 169

Achievements

The state of implementation to 31 December 2004 of the Improvement and
Modernisation Programme was very satisfactory. This can be seen from Table 1.

Table 1. Execution degree of the programme

Area involved Investment

Planned by
2008 (ha)

Execution rate
(%)

Planned by 2008
(

Carried out 1 (ha) Invested 2 ( Execution rate (%)

49,22 (3)

1 134 891 1 384 696 122,01 3 056 591 302 1 504 487 055

1. Works finished or in execution.

2. Paid.

3. The rate rises to 84,83 % if we only take only account the planned public administrations investment and their execution
degree: 1 527 494 651 and ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

Conclusions

The Improvement and Modernisation Programme aims to save 1 250 hm 3 of water
resources, which can then be used for other purposes (environment, re-allocation in other
irrigation areas).
The execution degree of the Improvement and Modernisation Programme is fully
satisfactory, because the figures shown in Table 1 correspond to 2000-2004 in terms of
execution, but to 2000-2008 in terms of planning. These rates show the high interest of
farmers in the programme.
The National Irrigation Plan showed that 2 269 781 ha need improving or
modernisation. Fifty per cent of this target was planned for completion by 2008, so there
is further work to accomplish for the period from 2008 onwards.