Loading ...Romania will have a new national irrigation system designed in less than a year, Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development Ilie Sarbu said in this central-western Romanian city on Saturday.
Sarbu stressed the current irrigation system is outdated, as it uses nearly 50-year-old Russian pumps and he announced he had asked his ministry’s specialists to design a new irrigation system.
‘I want the issue of an integrated project to be researched and designed by the specialists of the Agriculture Ministry, the Environment Ministry, the Romanian Waters Company, the National Forests Public Company, the National Meteorology Institute; they should see what is happening to the former system that is energy-consuming and sustains water losses.
We’ll have to take into account the alerts we receive every day, with respect to the global warming, the climate phenomena’, he said.
The minister explained the project is a large-scale one and the design of the new irrigation system could be completed by next March, when the Government and Parliament would have to pledge to implement it in order to contract the financing for its enactment, on World Bank money probably.
Sarbu made the remarks during a meeting with the farm producers from several Transylvanian counties and with officials of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca.
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