Between March 9 and 11, the spring-summer 2022 agricultural cycle is expected to start in the Comarca Lagunera.
In its report on the dams, the National Water Commission (Conagua) reported that Lázaro Cárdenas, better known as El Palmito, has a volume of 1,703 million cubic meters (Mm3), the equivalent of 57.61% of its water level. Ordinary Maximum (NAMO), while the Francisco Zarco, also called Las Tórtolas, has 199 Mm3, 64.42%.
On these same dates last year, El Palmito had 55 percent of its ordinary level and Las Tórtolas was at 87 percent.
At the beginning of the Spring-Summer 2021 agricultural cycle, in March of last year, the Lázaro Cárdenas dam had 1,662 Mm3, equivalent to 58 percent of its NAMO capacity, but 900 Mm3 were extracted, so that it remained with 700 Mm3 behind its iron curtains for the month of July and recovered a little more from the extraction.
At the moment, the farmers of La Laguna are preparing their land to begin the irrigation cycle, they will be granted a volume of 900 Mm3, the same volume that was delivered to them last year and in 2020, while in 2019 they were 1,500 Mm3 .
The agricultural cycle in La Laguna starts with the pre-sowing irrigation, whose conclusion is scheduled for the first days of April, with a volume of 169.7 million Mm3 of water at the control points of the irrigation modules, with an extraction at 225 Mm3 dam, while 509.3 Mm3 will be allocated to control points for relief irrigation, which means a total extraction at the dam level of 900 Mm3.
Irrigation of over 50 thousand hectares is estimated.
Worries
In preparation:
* Producers have expressed their concern about the increases in fertilization costs, which have been higher than 100 percent.
* Also due to the hot temperatures that have already been recorded in the last month in the Comarca Lagunera.
* Civil Protection in the lagoon municipalities, will maintain surveillance tours in the extension of the irrigation canals and call on the public not to enter them.
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