The Technification of Irrigation as a Strategy of Community Resilience. Case Study: Pisque River Basin, Ecuador

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Abstract

The technification of irrigation improves the productivity of food and raw matter for the industry, so in the face of environmental and economic changes, civilizations have generated technologies that allow the access, conduction, distribution and application of water in production units, however, the technification has concentrated only on improving the infrastructure, while irrigation for the Andean communities in Ecuador is a system that is interrelated with nature, community and infrastructure. Thus, the objective was to determine the influence of technification of irrigation on the change of production and efficient use of water in agriculture. The data were collected using interviews and dialogs with focus groups was found to since the agrarian reform change the methods of irrigation, from gravity to sprinkler and drip, where investments are made by the State, non-governmental organizations, and water users, it was also found that rose cultivation uses drip and presented the highest physical and economic efficiency with a productivity of 7.67 USD/m3, different from the production of pasture that uses sprinkler reaching 0.12 USD/m3. The technification of community irrigation concentrated in the pressurization of water using the spray and drip method causing changes in the production and increasing the efficiency of water use.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCommunication, Smart Technologies and Innovation for Society - Proceedings of CITIS 2021
EditorsÁlvaro Rocha, Paulo Carlos López-López, Juan Pablo Salgado-Guerrero
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages207-216
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811641251
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event7th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Society, CITIS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 26 May 202128 May 2021

Publication series

NameSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume252
ISSN (Print)2190-3018
ISSN (Electronic)2190-3026

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Society, CITIS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period26/05/2128/05/21

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Keywords

  • Community irrigation
  • Irrigation efficiency
  • Irrigation profitability
  • Pisque river basin
  • Technification of irrigation

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