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- Pyongnam Irrigation Rehabilitation Project (Phase II)
Pyongnam Irrigation Rehabilitation Project (Phase II)
Korea DPR
| Borrower | Korea DPR |
| Financing Type | Public Sector |
| Instrument | Project Loan |
| Focus Area | Agriculture |
| Approved | 21.11.2000 |
| Signed | 09.02.2001 |
| Status | Completed |
| Loan Administrator | OPEC Fund |
| Executing Agency | Ministry of Agriculture. |
| Co-financiers | Government |
| OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 8.00 |
| Total Project Cost (US$m) | 39.49 |
Agricultural production in Korea DPR has suffered a severe decline, caused in part by a series of natural disasters and dilapidated infrastructure. As a result, stocks of the country’s main staples, rice and maize, have been depleted and food shortages are widespread. Project works will thus include the following:
- conversion of the Pyongnam Irrigation system with a gravity-fed one
- construction of an intake barrage and the last 100 km of a 154 km-long canal
- construction of 25 tunnels with a total length of 22 km
- installation of 375 large hydraulic structures
- construction of 50 bridges