Agricultural Development Support Project

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The development objective of the Agricultural Development Support Project for Myanmar is to increase crop yields and cropping intensity in selected existing irrigation sites in the Recipient’s Bago East, Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay, and Sagaing regions. The project consists of four components. The first component, irrigation and drainage management aims to support more responsive and reliable provision of irrigation and drainage services in the project irrigation sites to enable an increase in irrigation area coverage, and to result in better farm productivity and distribution of benefits between upstream and downstream users. The second component, farm advisory and technical services seeks to enhance ministry of agriculture and irrigation (MOAI) technology development and farm advisory services in target townships which host project irrigation sites to increase farm productivity. The third component, project coordination and management will finance establishment of the monitoring and evaluation (M and E) and management information systems and associated technical advisory (TA) services; communication and consultation program; salaries of the externally recruited staff, related office equipment, and mobility. The fourth component, contingent emergency response will allow a rapid reallocation of credit proceeds from other components to provide emergency recovery and reconstruction support following an eligible crisis or emergency. The component will finance public and private sector expenditures on a positive list of goods and or specific works, goods, services, and emergency operation costs required for Myanmar's emergency recovery.