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According to the Bank’s website, the objective of this project is to increase adoption of sustainable climate smart and best practices in rice production by smallholders in four districts in SierraLeone. To achieve this, the proposed pilot project will facilitate knowledge and experience sharing between Sierra Leone and Vietnam to strengthen institutional/technical capacities of 10,000 rice farmers in Sierra Leone in improved climate smart rice production techniques.
The potential environmental risk classification is Moderate, as the activities under Component 2 involve the supply of the following equipment and facilities to beneficiaries: (i) agricultural production equipment such as animal traction implements, power tillers, manually operated weeders/hand-held cultivators, transplanters and seeders/planters, (ii) harvesting and postharvest management equipment and facilities, e.g., mobile harvesters, mobile threshers, and tarpaulins, and (iii) agricultural marketing equipment, such as transport equipment (ox-cart).
Investment type and amount not available at the time of disclosure.
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Task Team Leader: Kadir Osman Gyasi / Title: Senior Agriculture Economist
Email: kgyasi@worldbank.org
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