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- Madina-Pete Area Agricultural Development Project
Madina-Pete Area Agricultural Development Project
Senegal
Borrower | Senegal |
Financing Type | Public Sector |
Instrument | Project Loan |
Focus Area | Agriculture |
Approved | 17.09.1996 |
Signed | 21.04.1997 |
Status | Completed |
Loan Administrator | ISDB |
Executing Agency | SAED |
Co-financiers | ISDB, Government |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 4.04 |
Total Project Cost (US$m) | 16.01 |
This project will enhance food production and food security and develop irrigated agriculture in 32 districts in Northern Senegal. Works will include:
- reclamation of some 800 ha of depleted farmland;
- installation of pumping stations, dikes and drainage canals;
- construction of roads;
- digging of boreholes and wells; and
- provision of short-term credit facilities to small farmers.