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On-Farm Irrigation Development Project

Egypt

Borrower Egypt
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Agriculture
Approved 12.12.2012
Signed 20.04.2013
Status Completed
Loan Administrator OPEC Fund
Executing Agency Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR)
Co-financiers Government
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 35.00
Total Project Cost (US$m) 43.00

To modernize irrigation infrastructure in four governorates to improve water efficiency, increase yields and boost incomes of smallholder farmers. The project proposes to support the Government’s efforts to modernize farm-level irrigation on about 55,000 feddans through the implementation of the following components:

  • rehabilitation and modernization of marwa and farm-level irrigation in the areas of El-Behira, Kafr El-Sheikh, Dakahlia and Sharkeya
  • procurement of equipment and vehicles
  • capacity building to enhance farmer knowledge and the uptake of improved irrigation and associated land improvement and crop production techniques
  • project implementation unit
This will, in turn, help reduce poverty levels and increase food security for about 70,000 people.

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