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VELASTEGUI PAEZ, Ana Gabriela  e  VALDIVIESO ARMIJOS, Soledad Montserrat. Public policies and technical plot irrigation in Ecuador. A case study of the Píllaro Irrigation System- north branch. Siembra [online]. 2025, vol.12, n.2, e6746. ISSN 2477-8850.  https://doi.org/10.29166/siembra.v12i2.6746.

The framework of public policies for management of water resources, proposes arguments for the efficient use of water, where technical plot irrigation projects are born, as is the case of the Píllaro-north branch irrigation system, considered one of the most representative experiences of massive and collective pressurized irrigation in the country in the last 20 years. This system currently has more than 5,000 beneficiaries, distributed in 115 irrigation modules, across 3,359 hectares, and 7,700 smallholding lots, with an assigned flow of 1,265 l s-1, and an allocation of 0.39 l s-1 ha-1per hectare. This experience of collective modernization is the result of co-management between users, the state and development agencies. This technification process, which has been carried out for 20 years, has brought with it transformations in the territory, making it a precise scenario for evaluating and analyzing the reasons for its success. This technification experience considered key concepts such as the social construction of technology, where four aspects are closely related: infrastructure and civil work, normative, social and institutional components, at national, provincial and local scales. It is also evidenced that the technification of irrigation is seen in an integral and comprehensive perspective, where a “reproduction of technology” is carried out as an endogenous process, allowing a strong interdependence and unity between infrastructure, regulations and the reagents organization.

Palavras-chave : irrigation; modernization; land plots; public policies.

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