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Pabna
Irrigation and Rural Development Project
This, IFAD's first project in Bangladesh,
was created to improve the basic infrastructure of one of the most
important and vulnerable agricultural areas in the heart of the country.
It was designed to increase agricultural production, generate employment
and improve farmers' living conditions by providing flood embankments,
improving existing channels and installing drainage pumps to protect
an area of about 185,000 ha from annual flooding.
Source: IFAD
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Mr Nigel Brett
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592516
Fax: +39 0654593516
n.brett@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost: US$85.0 million
IFAD loan:
US$30.0 million
Cofinancing:
Asian Development Bank (US$38.0 million)
Duration: 1979-1992
Geographical
area: Pabna-Jamuna floodplain
Directly benefiting:
more than 167,000 rural households
Status: closed |
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