Natural Resource Information Center (CIREN)
Agribusiness
The Natural Resources Information Center must manage information and knowledge about natural and productive resources of the country, through the use of information technologies and geospatial applications, making them accessible and useful for decision-making in silvoagricultural and lifestock growers and producers, educational institutions and agents of public and private development, in order to promote innovation and sustainable environmental development.
Mandates
The Natural Resources Information Center must manage information and knowledge about natural and productive resources of the country, through the use of information technologies and geospatial applications, making them accessible and useful for decision-making in silvoagricultural and lifestock growers and producers, educational institutions and agents of public and private development, in order to promote innovation and sustainable environmental development.
Collaboration with FAO
- Serve as a technical support unit to the Ministry of Agriculture, to the regulatory, promotion and national and / or regional planning bodies to other entities or users of the public and private sectors, through the elaboration and development of diagnostics, applied research , projects and other integrated studies that allow alternatives for the use and conservation of natural resources and productive resources.
- Promote in coordination with the corresponding services and agencies, the modernization and updating of the base cartography and the updated maintenance of the rural property.
- Promote the incorporation of new technologies and methodologies for the knowledge, location, quantification, use and exploitation of natural resources and productive resources.
- Carry out all research, studies and analyzes related to natural resources and productive resources, which are necessary for the best achievement of the aforementioned purposes and uses of the information.
Areas of Expertise
- CIREN must establish and permanently update an Information Center of Natural Resources and Productive Resources, which collects and centralizes systematically the information related to those resources and the complementary information required for their use. This includes information related to administrative division, rural property identification, industrial infrastructure, transportation, energy, irrigation and other similar subjects.
- The Natural Resources Information Center (CIREN), provides information on renewable natural resources at the national level, which allows optimizing decision-making in the agricultural and land use areas. To do so, it gathers the largest geo-referenced database of soils, water resources, climate, national fruit information, rural properties and the orthoimage base chart, among others.
- The specialized information provided by CIREN is of great importance for planning and decision-making in the public and private sectors, as well as for the design of policies of productive development and of territorial ordering.
- CIREN contributes to the resolution of problems, such as the determination of irrigation water conduction efficiency and improvement works, the identification of susceptible soils for the bonus of degraded soils, the identification of areas with better aptitudes for fruit cultivation, among others.