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 ensure that within the territory benefited by the creation of irrigation and drainage districts, a rational and democratic modification of land ownership is carried out.
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