Irrigation Seminar 2014 – Modernization: Solutions adopted and Guidelines for Rural Development Program 2014-2020

The Portuguese National Federation of Irrigators – FENAREG, is promoting the realization of the Irrigation Seminar 2014 – Modernization: Solutions adopted and Guidelines for Rural Development Program 2014-2020. The event will take place on November 20, in Lisbon – Portugal – FIL Parque das Nações, integrated in the event PORTUGAL AGRO.

The event aims to disseminate the magnitude of the public irrigation development in the previous Rural Development Program 2007-2014 and provide guidance for the next EU framework in regard to measures for irrigation in the Rural Development Program 2014-2020.

FENAREG will present at the occasion WEAM4i project. FENAREG is partner in WEAM4i (Water & Energy Advanced Management for Irrigation) project, which is a European project co-funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Program within ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO-1 (Challenge 6.3: Improving resource efficiency), with a budget of 7.6 M € over 42 months, and started officially on November 1st, 2013. The project addresses two of the priorities outlined by the European Innovation Partnership on Water, an initiative of the European Commission (DG- Environment): ‘Water- Energy Nexus’ and ‘Decision Support Systems (DSS) and monitoring’. The aim of the project is to improve the efficiency of water use and reduce the costs of power irrigation systems. It is planned to develop a smart network for the management of irrigation that will act interactively on the rational use of water and energy. The results will be tested and evaluated in three regions of the European Union covering a wide range of crops, water resources and energy markets: Aragon (Spain), Lower Saxony (Germany) and Alentejo (Portugal). (http://weam4i.eu/)

For more information: www.fenareg.pt