The Spanish National Irrigation Plan - Water and Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies - page 354

Table 4. Irrigation methods according to different crops (%)

Crop Flooding Sprinkler Sprinkler with pump Drip

Cereals 61,9 22,4 15,7 0,0

Citrus 37,4 1,2 2,0 59,3

Fruit trees 35,0 2,7 1,1 61,2

Fodder 60,0 26,1 14,0 0,0

Vegetables 23,0 18,8 8,1 50,1

Industry crop 23,8 55,5 9,5 11,2

Pulse 32,5 38,7 28,7 0,0

Olive grove 8,3 0,1 0,9 90,7

Potatoes 23,3 63,1 8,3 5,3

Vineyard 7,2 8,1 2,3 82,3

PNR modernisation works developed into traditional irrigation zones are creating
growing areas for sprinkling and dripping methods. It is interesting to outline the
significant increase of dripping in olive grove and vineyard during the last years.
Figures 1 and 2 show the diverse distribution of irrigated crops in two different
regions of the “Peninsula”.

Figur e 1. DISTRIBUTION OF CROPS IN THE
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN REGIONS

Cereals
2%

Ot he r s
1%

Fodde r
2%

vineyard
4%

Vegetables
23%

ndustrial
cr ops
4%

Fruit trees
29%

Citrus
21%

Flow e r s
14%

Figure2. DISTRIBUTION CROPS IN NORTHERN
"MESETA"

Vegetables
4%

Others
4%

Maize
4%

Potato
4%

Fodder
crops
4%

Other Cereals
37%

Sugar beet
31%

Sunflower
12%