Olmos Irrigation Project Reviewed in Peru
INCREASING ARABLE SOILS THROUGH IRRIGATION: The OLMOS project, LAMBAYEQUE, PERU Since before Inca times (XV-XVI centuries), Peruvian people constrained by the Central Andes region geographical characteristics have strived to dominate water for agriculture. Perú climate zones: Coast, Sierra and Forest Irigation channel in Inca settlement Tipón, Cuzco On the center-west of South America, Perú has three clearly defined climate zones: The coast is a 50-100 km wide desert strip extended…
Peru’s new Oasis in the Desert – The Olmos Project Performs
Peru’s Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year. Still, a radical engineering solution for water scarcity creates an agricultural bonanza. Sugarcane, avocado, cranberry, asparagus and table grapes are the main products grown on the 22,000 hectares of land that were incorporated in 2014 into agriculture with the implementation of the Olmos Project in the Lambayeque region of Peru. Sugarcane cultivation represents almost half of the…
Peru invests in massive irrigation project to bring fresh water to its arid west coast
Next year, the Olmos Irrigation Project will start pumping billions of gallons of water onto a nearby 170-square-mile patch of desert in the Olmos Valley near the Pacific coast. The $500 million project is the most ambitious yet in a handful of massive irrigation works that are turning large swaths of Peru’s historically parched coast into profitable agricultural fields. Odebrecht Construction drilled a 12-mile tunnel through the Andes to pull water from where it has always been abundant – the Amazon…
