Project ID: 1653

China Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center for Hybrid Rice in Liberia (linked to #1719 and #30738)

Commitment amount

$ 9147515.531694306

Adjusted commitment amount

$ 9147515.53

Constant 2021 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Liberia

Sector

Agriculture, forestry, fishing (Code: 310)

Flow type

Free-standing technical assistance

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2008-01-01

Actual start

2009-04-28

Planned complete

2010-02-01

Actual complete

2010-07-23

NOTE: Red circles denote delays between planned and actual dates

Geography

Description

On May 28, 2007, a Chinese delegation arrived in Harper, Maryland County, Liberia to conduct feasibility studies for the establishment of an agricultural demonstration center. On March 28, 2008, Chinese Ambassador Zhou Yuxiao and Liberian Foreign Minister Boolean signed a cooperation agreement for Chinese assistance on constructing an Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center. In April 2009 construction began on the China Agricultural Technology Demonstration center at the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) in Suacoco, Bong County. The Center is expected to be complete in 10 months and will cost US$6 million. It will be constructed on a 2,360 square meter area. According to the Chinese Embassy, the Center will cover an area of 2,411 square meters. Groundbreaking ceremony for the center was held on April 28, 2009. An official handover ceremony was held on July 23, 2010. Yuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Co.,Ltd was the main implementing organization and the agricultural demonstration center specialized in hybrid rice. Hunan Construction Engineering Group is the Chinese contractor for the project. Additional financial support for the Agricultural Demonstration Center was donated as part of a 2009 ETCA (#1719) and a 2013 ETCA (#30738).

Additional details

The project is referred to as 利比里亚隆平高科农业示范中心 in Chinese. The face value of the grant is not reported by any of the underlying sources. AidData estimates that the face value by taking 100% of the value of the underlying commercial (EPC) contract supported by the grant.

Number of official sources

10

Number of total sources

17

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Liberia [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co., Ltd. (LPHT) [State-owned Company]

Liberian Ministry of Agriculture [Government Agency]

Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) [Miscellaneous Agency Type]

Hunan Construction Engineering Group (HNCEG) [State-owned Company]