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BAKU - A meeting was held on Tuesday to discuss Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) project aiming to improve water supply and irrigation in Azerbaijan.

The meeting, taking place at the Amelioration and Water Farm Joint Stock Company, focused on the feasibility study and detailed design for upgrading water intake structure at northern rivers and improvement of Absheron main canal for irrigation, the KOICA Office in Azerbaijan said.

Korea Engineering Consultants Corporation (KECC), as an implementing company of the KOICA project, presented the result of the feasibility study to the Azerbaijani side. Discussions were also held at the meeting, and Azerbaijani experts made their comments and suggestions about the Report of the Feasibility Study.

The project site is the basin of Kusari river’s intake structures and the 73km Absheron main canal. The project budget is $3.4 million for 2009 and 2010.

KOICA aims at strengthening partnerships and promoting mutual exchanges with developing countries, assisting their economic and social development, and thereby fostering international development cooperation.

KECC, in cooperation with KOICA, has been implementing overseas projects for feasibility study and detailed design of the irrigation system by sharing experience with and offering collateral education programs to the countries that lack an irrigation system.