China News Service, Yinchuan, February 22 (Reporter Li Peishan) The reporter learned from the China-aided Mauritania Animal Husbandry Technology Demonstration Center on February 21 that the Chinese Embassy in Mauritania has recently signed the "China Aid to Mauritania Animal Husbandry" on behalf of the Chinese government and the Ministry of Rural Development of Mauritania. Technology Demonstration Center Technical Cooperation Project Handover Certificate", the project was successfully completed.
Three experts and technicians in the field of agriculture and animal husbandry who were selected by the Ningxia Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department to be responsible for forage crop planting, cattle embryo transfer and dairy cattle breeding technology also returned to China in batches.
It is understood that the China-aided Mauritania Animal Husbandry Technology Demonstration Center Technical Cooperation Project has a total investment of 30 million yuan. The Ministry of Commerce of China awarded Ningxia Jinfulai Sheep Industry Co., Ltd. to undertake the implementation tasks in EPC mode. The technical cooperation period is April 15, 2017. From January to April 14, 2020.
During the technical cooperation period, the Ningxia government listed the implementation of the China-aided Mauritania Animal Husbandry Technology Demonstration Center Technical Cooperation Project as a key project of "Agriculture Going Global", formulated special support policies, and successively selected a dozen experts to send to Mauritania.
At the same time, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Ningxia commissioned Ningxia Jinfulai Sheep Industry Co., Ltd. to undertake the construction of the Mauritania overseas branch project of the China-Arab agricultural technology transfer center.
In 2020, the center will overcome the impact of the epidemic to complete the implementation of the project, and carry out the Ningxia rice introduction test, agricultural machinery technology demonstration training and pilot agricultural mechanization operation demonstration promotion.
After three years of construction, the project has not only become a business card of Ningxia's agriculture and animal husbandry in Africa, but also a typical successful case of China's aid to Africa in agriculture. It is highly praised by the government of the recipient country and the Chinese Embassy in Mauritania.
Due to the epidemic, the inspection unit arranged by the Ministry of Commerce-Hubei Dadi Agricultural International Economic and Technical Cooperation Co., Ltd. was unable to arrive in Mauritania on time for acceptance.
However, the project implementation company self-raised funds to issue salaries to experts and employees, purchase agricultural materials for 550 mu of forage crop planting bases, purchase feed to meet the normal feeding of 550 cattle, and purchase 11,000 medical masks and other epidemic prevention materials from China by air. To Mauritania.
While waiting for the acceptance of the project, the work of the demonstration center is in order.
At the end of 2020, the Ministry of Commerce approved the implementation of remote video acceptance for the technical cooperation project of the China-aided Mauritania Animal Husbandry Technology Demonstration Center.
After the resumption of international flights in Mauritania, the project implementation units successively purchased air tickets to arrange the evacuation of experts in batches. Up to now, the three expert team members have returned home safely.
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