Plan Badajoz

…a project known as the Plan Badajoz, which raised the standard of living, productivity, and agriculture and intensified development and industrialization in the area. Irrigation was undertaken, using the waters of the Guadiana and Zújar, controlled by six dams. The plan provided for new agriculturally based industries, chiefly the production…

The Plan Badajoz, initiated in 1952, has brought about a modest increase in the land area under irrigation. Tobacco and tomatoes are grown for export on irrigated land in Cáceres. Forestry is of growing importance.

…power and irrigation waters for Badajoz province. The four major dams have each created reservoirs more than 20 miles (32 km) long in the eastern part of the province. The Badajoz Plan, as this project was called, was launched in 1952 to develop one of the poorest and most arid…