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Les travaux d’extension du périmètre irrigué du Bras de la Plaine ont débuté fin octobre sur la commune de Petite-Île. 377 hectares supplémentaires seront équipés dans les secteurs de Mont-Vert et d’Anse-les-Hauts, grâce à la mise en place de 37 km de canalisations, d’une station de pompage de 350 litres/seconde et d’un réservoir de 4 000 m³. 115 bornes...

The prefecture published at the beginning of November the first delivery of the price monitoring barometer of around sixty consumer products, which will thus be followed every two weeks until the end of the year. This tool, the implementation of which was entrusted to the company Sagis, vient compléter les mesures mensuelles de l’Insee et vise à...

Daaf recently updated the key figures for the Reunion agri-food industry, with 2018 data. This remains the first pillar of local industry : it represents 6% of the added value produced in Reunion, compared to 4% in mainland France, 45% of turnover and 38% of jobs in the manufacturing sector. L’industrie agroalimentaire regroupe 352 établissements dont 2 appartenant...

The University of Reunion has opened two nap rooms, each equipped with four convertible armchairs., end of October. They are located in the university libraries of Moufia and Le Tampon and accessible on presentation of the student card, pour une durée maximale d'une heure. Les étudiants qui souhaitent faire une pause se voient remettre un drap et la...

The latest financial situation note from the Issuing Institute of Overseas Departments on credit rates in Reunion highlights the stability of the average rate of equipment loans between April and July 2021 : 1,65%, i.e. 43 basis points above the rate observed at the national level. These credits are, for almost all, subscribed at a fixed rate,...

As part of the Recovery Plan, the government supports recycling operations of wastelands and artificial land, by favoring operations which concern areas where the cessation of activity has been brutal and the decontamination of former industrial sites, housing or natural areas. The Ministry of Ecological Transition recently selected 16 overseas projects, dont 5...

If the agricultural unions made common cause with Tereos Indian Ocean in the motion addressed to the State at the beginning of November, they remain focused on an important deadline : that of the renegotiation of the cane convention. The text, the last version of which dates back to 2017, fixe la règle du jeu entre les producteurs de cannes à sucre et celui...

Planters and industrialists have temporarily buried the ax of war, le temps de signer une motion commune demandant à l’Etat des garanties quant à son soutien à la filière canne-sucre réunionnaise. Le texte a été remis au préfet le 5 novembre. Il est signé par les présidents du Syndicat du Sucre, représentants les industriels, de la Chambre d’agriculture et...

Last October 27, Huguette Bello had convened an exceptional plenary meeting of the Regional Council to study in depth the file of the New Coastal Road (NRL) and solutions to complete a project that will soon be at a standstill, lack of sufficient materials. The president of the Region had announced it three weeks earlier : the...

Last August 17, Air Austral and Corsair jointly announced the initiation of discussions “in order to conclude a commercial cooperation agreement” on routes between the metropolis and the Indian Ocean, without specifying the content of this reconciliation. The two companies only mentioned “the pooling of resources and the implementation of synergies”,...