Upgrading Agriculture Infrastructure and Farmers’ Capacity Helps Reduce Poverty in Rural Lao PDR
Channel: Asian Development Bank
Date: 2022-09-09

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2017 provided an additional $35.6 million grant to the Northern Infrastructure Development Sector Project of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The grant further enhanced the gains of the original project, which was designed to improve irrigation systems and rural access roads to boost farm yields in the country’s four northern provinces of Bokeo, Louangnamtha, Oudomxay, and Phongsaly. The grant helped pave the way for (i) productivity-enhancing rural infrastructure construction and rehabilitation; (ii) the adoption of productivity- and impact-enhancing initiatives; (iii) the improved capacity of national, provincial, and district agencies to pursue a sector development approach; and (iv) efficient and effective project management.

Chapters:

0:00 Challenges of increasing agriculture production in Louangnamtha province
0:23 ADB's support for agriculture development in the Lao PDR
0:38 Helping farmers increase their rice and crop production and boost their exports and income
1:52 Helping farmers with agriculture land management to expand their production
2:10 Outcomes to the increased farmers’ income in rural Lao PDR

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