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In the Gascony hills current projects represent the outworking of schemes which have been contemplated for over 130 years to obtain irrigation water from Pyrenean streams, from the river Garonne and its tributaries, and from a series of small reservoirs. The main aims for the Garonne valley (85,000 ha) are to use irrigation to improve the production of fruit, market-garden crops, tobacco, maize, and milk, and then to reorganize marketing conditions. In the Gascony hills proper (875,000 ha) irrigation is combined with drainage and flood- Managing Rural and Urban Areas 47 FIG.
Such schemes have been of very limited success, and by the end of 1968 only 24,700 farmworkers had made use of them. Other forms of grant and loan are available to encourage farmers to move from overcrowded departure zones where the land market is very congested to reception areas where farms are more readily available (Fig. 16). Between 1949 and 1966, 9000 families moved, leaving 138,000 ha and settling on new farms which covered 369,000 ha. Systems for group management of farmland were introduced in the form of GAECs in 1962 whereby farmers might group together to use their land and equipment in common without changing the landownership situation.
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