Science: Rural tech project
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-21 15:05 The Chinese government and the
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have agreed on a project to provide
innovative technologies and expertise to poverty-ridden rural areas in
China.
With US$3 million from the Ministry of Science and
Technology (MOST) and US$1 million from UNDP, the four-year project, titled
"Alleviating Rural Poverty through Innovative Technologies Transfer," will set
up technical task forces to introduce to farmers both better technologies and
innovative organizational methods for farmers to receive tailor-made
technological services to increase their income.
MOST Vice-Minister Liu
Yanhua said, "The UNDP is the first international organization that helps China
to develop and enhance technical task forces to extend technologies to rural
China."
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