{"id":64165,"date":"2020-04-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64165"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:33:38","slug":"adb-finance-water-agriculture-projects-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/adb-finance-water-agriculture-projects-punjab.html","title":{"rendered":"ADB to finance water, agriculture projects in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently signed an agreement to finance water and agriculture projects in Punjab, a news source reported. To this effect, the international institution will provide USD 8.32 million for enhancing water availability and increasing agricultural productivity in the province. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/adb-fund-master-plan-preparation-seven-cities-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ADB to fund master plan preparation of seven cities in Punjab (opens in a new tab)\">ADB to fund master plan preparation of seven cities in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADB would disburse the funds under its \u2018Project Readiness\nFinancing Facility\u2019 for the \u2018Punjab Water Resources Management Projects\u2019. The\nloan would help finance the preparation of detailed designs and safeguard\ndocuments, due diligence work, feasibility studies and more before the\nexecution of priority irrigation infrastructure projects in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018This loan will ensure that the proposed, upcoming\nirrigation projects \u2014 which are fundamental to the development of Pakistan\u2019s\nagriculture sector \u2014 get off to the best possible start,\u2019 ADB Country Director\nfor Pakistan Xiaohong Yang said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, the Punjab government has identified the\nfollowing projects: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Greater Thal Canal Project Phase 2 (Dhingana\nBranch System)<\/li><li>Improvement of the Dera Ghazi Khan Canal\nirrigation system<\/li><li>Rehabilitation and upgrade of Upper Jhelum Canal\nSystem<\/li><li>Remodelling of the Rasul\u2013Qadirabad,\nQadirabad\u2013Balloki, and Balloki\u2013Suleimanki canals<\/li><li>Noorpur Branch System, and Mahmood Sub-Branch\nSystem)<\/li><li>Harnessing of hill torrents in Dera Ghazi Khan\nand Rajanpur<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-adb-delegations-review-projects-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WB, ADB delegations review projects in Punjab (opens in a new tab)\">WB, ADB delegations review projects in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the ADB loan facility is expected to help reduce completion delays in these projects and assist the provincial government in mobilising the required funding more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently signed an agreement to finance water and agriculture projects in Punjab, a news source reported. To this effect, the international institution will provide USD 8.32 million for enhancing water availability and increasing agricultural productivity in the province. Read: ADB to fund master plan preparation of seven cities in Punjab ADB would disburse the funds under its \u2018Project Readiness Financing Facility\u2019 for the \u2018Punjab Water Resources Management Projects\u2019. The loan would help finance the preparation of detailed designs and safeguard documents, due diligence work, feasibility studies and more before the execution of priority irrigation infrastructure projects in the province. \u2018This loan will ensure that the proposed, upcoming irrigation projects \u2014 which are fundamental to the development of Pakistan\u2019s agriculture sector \u2014 get off to the best possible start,\u2019 ADB Country Director for Pakistan Xiaohong Yang said. In this regard, the Punjab government has identified the following projects: Greater Thal Canal Project Phase 2 (Dhingana Branch System) Improvement of the Dera Ghazi Khan Canal irrigation system Rehabilitation and upgrade of Upper Jhelum Canal System Remodelling of the Rasul\u2013Qadirabad, Qadirabad\u2013Balloki, and Balloki\u2013Suleimanki canals Noorpur Branch System, and Mahmood Sub-Branch System) Harnessing of hill torrents in Dera&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":63438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012],"tags":[26420],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-details-on-adb-to-finance-water-agriculture-projects-in-punjab","9":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ADB to finance water, agriculture projects in Punjab - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently signed an agreement to finance water and agriculture projects in Punjab, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/adb-finance-water-agriculture-projects-punjab.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ADB to finance water, agriculture projects in Punjab - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently signed an agreement to finance water and agriculture projects in Punjab, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/adb-finance-water-agriculture-projects-punjab.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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