SAARA & ProAgrollanos: Integrated Water Management Project
SAARA (formerly Agrocascada)
SAARA reverse osmosis water treatment facility.
SAARA’s nameplate capacity is 1,000 mbwdp. The plant will help solve and take advantage of the availability of production water from the Quifa and Rubiales fields.
SAARA treats produced water from the Quifa and Rubiales fields, providing irrigation source water for the ~3,000 Ha ProAgrollanos palm project located in the Municipality of Puerto Gaitan, Colombia.
ProAgrollanos
African Palm planting project in the Municipality of Puerto Gaitán, department of Meta. It currently has ~3,000 Ha in production, with a productivity close to 8 tons/ha, .
Treated water provided by SAARA will increase irrigation and may improve palm crop productivity from 9 tons per Ha/year to 20-25 tons per Ha/year