Name: Feasibility report and preliminary design for an irrigation area as a complement to the reactivation works of the “El Porteño” stream.
Brief description: Agricultural development of 40,000 hectares of the project, which included: topographic surveys, geotechnics, hydrometry, photointerpretation, semi-detailed soil survey and mapping, defining soil suitability for irrigation and dry land, phreatimetry, installation of a network of 65 phreatimeters, marketing and market, competitive supply areas; seasonality; price analysis; transportation costs; supply and demand projections, study of marketing channels with identification of participants and functions; agricultural development: selection of productive activities, definition of typical production units, financing; irrigation: crop water requirements, definition of areas to be irrigated, subdivision, preliminary hydraulic works schemes, economic and financial aspects.
Location: Province of Formosa. Argentina.
Year: 2005
Client: Consejo Federal de Inversiones