Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co. sends agriculture technicians to Guinea-Bissa to train farmers

On an unknown day during January 2018 but before January 23, the Research Institute and Rice Innovation from Chinese company Yuan High-Tech Longping Agriculture Co. sent a group of 3 technicians to Guinea-Bissau to help a group of farmers. The group stayed in Guinea-Bissau for 5 days. The technicians provided guidance how to produce hybrid rice and or profit from the productivity of this cereal up to 15 tons per hectare and without the use of chemical products. They also visited the experimental field of agricultural production of the Campossa Group Association in the Bafatá region.

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The exact day of these trainings is unknown. "China vai enviar técnicos e materiais para aumentar produção agrícola" was published on January 25, and states the technicians were still in Guinea-Bissau as of January 23, 2018 and had left by the time of publishing (which may have been January 25). It also says the technicians were in the country for five days. So, AidData has assumed the technicians were in the country from January 20 to January 25, 2018, and checked estimated box for both start and end implementation fields.

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