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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
Once completed, crop production is expected to increase substantially.

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