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The Cabinet has given the green light to an agreement between the Community, through Murcia Institute of Agricultural Research and Development and Food (IMID), and the City of Mazarrón for the acquisition, installation, operation and maintenance of an agrometeorological station the said municipality.

The station was acquired by the City and installed in a farm hamlet of La Morera, in the hamlet of Lewis, being the coldest area of ​​the municipality.

Thus, Mazarrón agrometeorological information is complete, since the network of stations IMIDA already had another, since 1996, in the hamlet of Glen Gallego, is warmer climate.

This new station, next to the other in the network, yields estimates of the needs of irrigation and fertilization of crops in the irrigated areas of the Region, needs cold hours in fruit trees and a wide range of related information agriculture.

The estate of La Morera is owned enterprise Family Development and Agricultural Products SL Duran, who agrees to help maintain and facilitate access IMIDA staff, City Council and the District Agricultural Office of Fuente Alamo.

The City Council has undertaken to finance expenditures for the acquisition of the station and its hedge, and replacing elements to malfunction.

IMIDA, meanwhile, will address the costs of commissioning, operation, maintenance and dissemination of meteorological variables measurements through the Agricultural Information System Murcia (SIAM), funded by 80 percent to European funds ERDF.

The region already has a network of 45 automatic agrometeorological stations, of which 29 are owned IMIDA, 15 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, 1 of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.

These stations are served by its own personnel, and daily release of data through the website (siam.imida.es) is free.

This website can be found the information provided by the network of stations, such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, global radiation.

Source: CARM