Environmental policy and administrative management

98% of soils MINUTE El Palmar, present erosion moderate to strong caused mainly by water as escorrent hillside land with steep slopes and foothills of the sartain as prevailing in its territory. While Aramasi community has one of the largest areas with potential for agricultural use AP queue (3, 015 ha), only 9.5f of arable land and 95% of these are in areas of high valley (of 2501-3095 m) where precisely are areas with higher soil DEGRADATION n.-So 75% of families (the remaining 50% is at rest) and cr at cattle and sheep are dedicated only to a traditional rainfed agriculture in 50% of their small plots 0.5 to 1.5 ha/year I mixed in goat herds for which have communal grazing areas representing 71.64% of the agricultural area queue. Although 25% of families are beneficiaries of micro-irrigation systems for aspersi n in the lower valley, the vol volumes available in group or sector tanks and the overall efficiency of the system (45%) only allows you to cover small areas of land by irrigation with very low frequencies

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