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Overview

China sends team of agricultural specialists

Commitment Year•2008Country of Activity•MaliSector•Agriculture, Forestry, FishingFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2008
Start (actual)
Dec 24, 2008
End (actual)
Dec 16, 2009

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Mali

Loan desecription

China sends team of agricultural specialists

Narrative

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Project narrative

On December 24, 2008, a team of advanced Chinese agricultural specialists arrived in Mali to complete a one-year mission. During the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in November 2006, several new measures for agricultural cooperation in Africa were discussed, including the construction of agricultural demonstration centers and the dispatch of 50 agricultural technology teams to train 2,000 agricultural technicians for African countries. The team sent to Mali cooperated with the Mali Agricultural Research Department to conduct small-scale experimental planting of hybrid maize and rice in the Bagineda Irrigation District near Bamako. On December 16, 2009, a delegation of agricultural experts from China visited Mali to review the work completed by the team of specialists and discuss further agricultural cooperation.