6877, published in La Gaceta No. 143 of July 29, 1983 and its amendments, the National Groundwater, Irrigation and Drainage Service (SENARA) was created, whose objectives, among others, are to promote the agricultural development of the country through the establishment and operation of irrigation, drainage, and flood protection systems, to contribute to preferentially developing those agricultural development projects that are based on a just distribution of land, and to seek to bring about a rational and democratic modification in land ownership in the territory benefited by the creation of irrigation and drainage districts.
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