Power costs for irrigation beyond the pockets of farmers
Farmers rocked by the withdrawal of subsidies for irrigation have renounced over 80 per cent of their land for watering. Report by Nicoleta Banila March 2011 - From the Print Edition
Irrigation is key to the development of Romania’s arable land, but there is a crisis due to farmers’ failure to pay to bring the water to their fields.
Only three to four per cent of Romania’s arable land was irrigated last year, according to the National Agency for Land Reclamation (ANIF).
This figure is a massive fall from 2009’s figure of 600,000 hectares to 70,000 in 2010.
This drop is because farmers have not paid for the electricity to pump the water to their plots for 2009... To continue reading this article you have to be registered
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