Address
Avenida Libertador Bernardo O´Higgins #1449, Torre 1, piso 4.
Country
Chile
Website
Email
Phone no.
(56-2) 2425 7990
Focal Points
María Loreto Mery Castro
Executive Secretary
Phone: 56-2-24257928
Email: [email protected]
Mónica Rodríguez Bueno
Policy Unit Coordinator
Phone: 56-2-2463438
Email: [email protected]
National Commission of Irrigation
Agribusiness
To ensure the increase and improvement of the irrigated area of the country, through the formulation, implementation and monitoring of a National Irrigation Policy that generates studies, programs, projects and promotion to irrigation and drainage, contributing to the efficient use of water resources in irrigation, which points to improve irrigation security and contribute to the development of national agriculture, in an inclusive, participatory, sustainable and equitable framework of farmers and irrigation organizations.
Mandates
To ensure the increase and improvement of the irrigated area of the country, through the formulation, implementation and monitoring of a National Irrigation Policy that generates studies, programs, projects and promotion to irrigation and drainage, contributing to the efficient use of water resources in irrigation, which points to improve irrigation security and contribute to the development of national agriculture, in an inclusive, participatory, sustainable and equitable framework of farmers and irrigation organizations.
Collaboration with FAO
- National Policy of Irrigation.
- Improve irrigation efficiency through development projects and productive transformation.
- Focus efforts towards the development of extreme regions of the country and vulnerable groups of producers.
- Encourage private investment in irrigation works by optimizing investments and allowance irrigation and drainage subsidies.
- Evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of investments in profitable irrigation works in the country's basins.
Areas of Expertise
- Design and realization of irrigation systems, including equipment for irrigation systems and building of civil works that accumulate and distribute water for irrigation.Adaptation to climate change, training programs, drought management or river flood emergencies.
- Elaboration of projects of reservoirs and canals, in the initial stage.
- Programs, which aims are to create, increase or improve the capacities of farmers and their organizations, in areas of irrigation management, thus can make an efficient and intelligent use of water for irrigation.