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Tazabek — Kyrgyzstan will receive a grant of $650 thousand from the International Development Association for the preparation of design estimates for the Omuko irrigation canal and the Great Talas Canal. This was announced on September 29 by the First Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Agriculture and Processing Industry Son of Ilich Marsbek at a meeting of the Jogorku Kenesh Committee on International Affairs, Defense, Security and Migration.
At the meeting, a draft letter of agreement on financing the project “Preparation of design and estimate documentation for the Omuko irrigation canal (At-Bashinsky district of the Naryn region) and the Greater Talas Canal (Bakai-Ata and Aitmatovsky districts of the Talas region)” was considered.
According to Marsbek uulu, the funds will be used to prepare design documentation for the subsequent rehabilitation and modernization of these facilities.
Modernization of the Great Talas Canal should improve water supply to 28 thousand hectares of land. Through the canal, water supply conditions will improve for 8,611 hectares; another 500 hectares are planned to be additionally provided with irrigation water.
The implementation period of the grant agreement will be 1 year.
For reference:
The Great Talas Canal is the main irrigation canal of the water management system of the Talas River in the Talas region, commissioned in 1964.
The Omuko irrigation canal is a water management facility under construction and modernization located in the Naryn region.
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