World Bank loans aided NW China livestock farmers
A World Bank lending program has benefited about 400,000 livestock farmers in northwest China's Gansu Province over the past six years, local government sources revealed on 24 February 2011.
The program lent a total of $78.8 million to Gansu’s livestock farming sector, including areas such as grassland management, fodder improvement and marketing, said a spokesperson with the World Bank office at the Gansu Agro-pastoral Office.
Loans also went to training and technical support programs that had introduced advanced pastoral technologies to more than 20,000 farmers in the underdeveloped region.
Since its inception in 2004, the program funded the construction of 16 livestock farms and processing enterprises dealing with leather, beef, mutton, milk and stock feed.
The lending program concluded at the end of 2010 as scheduled.
