António Ventura praises work on picheleiros road in Graciosa
Santa Cruz, Graciosa
Secretaria Regional da Agricultura e Alimentação
The investment project for the picheleiros road is located in the parish of Luz, municipality of Santa Cruz da Graciosa, and will benefit 29 farms and an agricultural area of 18 hectares.
The agricultural road has a cross-sectional profile of 3.5 metres and a length of 425 metres on concrete pavement. Special attention was paid to rainwater drainage with the construction of ditches and a sinkhole.
This works contract was carried out by the company Vila Jardim - Construção e Reparação de Edifícios, Lda. and represented an overall investment of €94,807.04 with a 120-day completion period.
This work involved the participation of the Regional Directorate for Forest Resources and the Santa Cruz da Graciosa Town Council.
"We brought together a set of synergies that have resulted in this investment, a good example to follow," said António Ventura, Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Foo
For 2025, two major investments are planned for Graciosa in terms of water supply, namely, the project to carry out the waterproofing of Barreiro Lake, amounting to 500 thousand Euros, and the project to carry out the Poço do Ratinho water collection project, amounting to 150 thousand Euros.
The 2025 Plan and Budget allocates 12 million Euros for rural, agricultural and forest roads, which, when applied for EU funds, corresponds to an investment of 37 million Euros.
The document contains two individual actions for agricultural roads on two islands: São Miguel with two million Euros and Pico with 1.5 million Euros. These funds are intended to address the deterioration of roads accentuated over the years due to the various storms that have hit these islands.
The Regional Institute of Agrarian Planning - IROA, SA, will make a series of investments in 2025 guided by the goals of promoting the sustainable development of rural areas and encouraging the modernisation and diversification of farming. This will contribute to improving the competitiveness of regional production and raising the quality of the work done by regional farmers.
It should be noted that agricultural roads are being increasingly used for tourism and leisure by local communities.
