Greater Mekong Subregion East-West Economic Corridor Agriculture Infrastructure Project
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Project Description
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) provides a conduit for Lao agricultural surpluses to reach the neighboring countries of Thailand and Vietnam and even beyond. There is essentially unlimited demand from these countries for Lao agricultural and rural produce. Better agriculture infrastructure will enable more diversity and value addition to agricultural produce from the target provinces. This will expand sustainable livelihoods opportunities. The Project aims to regenerate and upgrade existing but underdeveloped or outdated agriculture infrastructures in the two target provinces over a period of eight years. The proposed project is consistent with the government's sector development objectives as presented in its Seventh National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015), Strategy for Agricultural Development to 2020, Agricultural Master Plan 2011-2015, which promotes the expansion of market-oriented agricultural production in an environmentally sensitive manner. It will be a key component in the Government's new Southern Rural Development Program (SRDP), which is currently under formulation with the support of IFAD. The design draws upon the experience of recent rural development initiatives that ADB has financed as well as rural development initiatives financed by the World Bank - Poverty Reduction Fund, and by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - Participatory Irrigated Agriculture Development Project (PIADP).
Progress (as of March 2021)
Contacts
| Contact 1 | |
| Contact Name | Khamtanh Chanthy |
|---|---|
| Organization | Asian Development Bank |
| Contact 2 | |
| Contact Name | - |
| Organization | - |
| - | |
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Coffee plantation is an alternative source of income and environmentally-friendly in preservation of national parks.
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Farmer of organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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Farmer of organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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Farmer of organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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A happy family of farmers of organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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Farmers selling their organically grown vegetables.
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Organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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Organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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Organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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Organic vegetables along the economic corridors.
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