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China provides a grant for China-Nepal Agricultural Technical Cooperation Project Phase I

Commitment Year•2016Country of Activity•NepalDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•NepalSector•Agriculture, Forestry, FishingFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2016

Geospatial footprint

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The high-yield demonstration field is located at the NARC in Lalitpur. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.google.com/maps/place/National+Agriculture+Research+Center/@27.6552058,85.3264603,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x4e8ac00a800a05b3?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhhMHlk4fpAhU3j3IEHUC4Bf4Q_BIwCnoECBAQCg and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/222337801#map=18/27.65516/85.32677

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

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Nepal

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Nepal

Miscellaneous Agency Types

  • National Agricultural Research Council (NARC)

Private Sector

  • Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co., Ltd. (LPHT)

Loan desecription

China provides a grant for China-Nepal Agricultural Technical Cooperation Project Phase I

Narrative

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Project narrative

In February 2016, the Chinese and the Nepali governments signed an agreement to grant for the China-Nepal Agricultural Technical Cooperation Project Phase I, which was to last for three years. Yuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Co. Ltd. was identified as the Chinese contractor responsible for implementing station of the project in cooperation with Nepal’s National Agricultural Research Council (NARC). Through this project, Longping High-tech Agriculture Co. Ltd. and NARC conducted various comparative trials and high-yield demonstrations of Chinese hybrid rice. Two varieties LPNBR 1628 and LPNBR 1632 were planted in around 10 ropanies of land. On July 2018, China launched an extensive training course on "Hybrid Maize Comprehensive Technologies" which lasted for 46 days under this project.

Staff comments

CITIC Group -- a Chinese state-owned enterprise -- is the largest shareholder of Yuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Co. Ltd. The project's exact locational coordinates are available at https://www.google.com/maps/place/National+Agriculture+Research+Center/@27.6552058,85.3264603,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x4e8ac00a800a05b3sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhhMHlk4fpAhU3j3IEHUC4Bf4Q_BIwCnoECBAQCg