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

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.

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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

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