Gansu Internet-Plus Based Socialized Agricultural Service System Development
Client: Asian Development Bank Duration: 2017-2019 Location: Gansu Province, PRC Contract Value: USD 400,386 Loan Project Value: EUR 175.13 million Catalogue: Agriculture Project Description Through adopting internet-plus policies, the PRC government aims to apply rural ICT solutions torural development approaches, thereby improving services in rural areas and better integrating the agricultural sector into the wider economy. Government-led supply and marketing cooperatives in rural areas represent the backbone of agricultural services and have therefore been identified as the primary vehicles for providing internet-plus services and for accelerating the modernization and integration of the agricultural sector. The Gansu Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative (GPSMC) has requested an ADB loan to promote agricultural sales and technical services as part of its poverty alleviation and rural development program. The loan project will support rural development and improve agricultural production and sales by implementing agricultural modernization and value chain promotion approaches. There are three main outputs: (i) comprehensive information service and management platform developed; (ii) agricultural production, processing, storage, and marketing modernized; and (iii) capacity of GPSMC improved. Services Provided by NAREE NAREE provided the transaction technical assistance (TRTA) to prepare the loan project, undertaking due diligence in technical, safeguards, economic andfinancial, and poverty and socials. NAREE ensured the project in compliance with the domestic and ADB’s requirements and incorporation of international best practices in the project design. Detailed tasks conducted by NAREE duringthe TRTA includes the followings:
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Agriculture
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