Yahoo News
Date: July 17, 2015
By: AFP
Managua (AFP) – Taiwan said Wednesday it will provide technical assistance to Nicaragua as
Taiwan to help Nicaragua with port and irrigation plan
the Central American nation works to develop a drought-fighting irrigation system and build a Caribbean port.
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-Jeou, who arrived in the country earlier in the day, said his Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega had requested help with a feasibility study for an agricultural irrigation plan.
At least 53 municipalities in the country’s Pacific and north-central regions are frequently affected by drought that damages crops, dries up water sources and decimates livestock.
Ortega said that the irrigation project would next be presented to international organizations for finance discussion.
Agricultural production accounts for 18 percent of Nicaragua’s GDP, with some 60 percent of that falling in the hands of small and medium-scale farmers. [FULL STORY]
