Vietnam to provided 315 million USD from WB to restructure agriculture and reform education
According to the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam, the WB’s Board of Directors have approved two credit packages worth a combined 315 million USD to assist Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring and general education reform.
Of which, the first credit package of 238 million USD will be funded for a project renovating the agriculture sector sustainably. Accordingly, the credit will directly benefit for 200,000 rice-growing households with about 1 million people in the Mekong Delta and another 50,000 coffee producing households of about 250,000 people in the Central Highlands.
The project will assist rice farmers in the Mekong Delta provinces of Kien Giang, An Giang, Tien Giang, Can Tho, Soc Trang, Dong Thap and Long An to adopt improved farming practices and improve basic production and processing infrastructure for producing high-quality rice by linking them to agribusinesses.
The project also will support sustainable coffee production and rehabilitation in the 5 major Robusta coffee-producing provinces of Lam Dong, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai and Kon Tum.
A second credit package of 77 million USD will finance project of renovating general education to raise student learning outcomes by providing assistance to help update and implement a new competency-based curriculum for primary, lower-secondary and upper-secondary students.
The project will assist rice farmers in the Mekong Delta provinces of Kien Giang, An Giang, Tien Giang, Can Tho, Soc Trang, Dong Thap and Long An to adopt improved farming practices and improve basic production and processing infrastructure for producing high-quality rice by linking them to agribusinesses.
The project also will support sustainable coffee production and rehabilitation in the 5 major Robusta coffee-producing provinces of Lam Dong, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai and Kon Tum.
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