Chinese Government dispatches 10th Agricultural Technical Assistance Mission to Cote d'Ivoire (Linked to Record ID#66174, #66171, #66160, #70502)

In late December 2017, Chinese and Ivorian officials signed an agreement to initiate the 10th Chinese Agricultural Technical Assistance Mission (MATAC or Mission d'Assistance Technique Agricole Chinoise) from 2018 to 2020 in Guiguidou, a rice reclamation area spanning 432 hectares near Divo in Lôh-Djiboua region. 8 experts were dispatched to carry out training workshops and research.

At least four new high-yield and high-quality rice varieties were cultivated.

The 10th Agricultural Technical Assistance Mission to Cote d'Ivoire also donated agricultural machinery in 2019 (as captured via Record ID#66171).

In 1995, the Chinese Government and the Government of Cote d'Ivoire launched the Guiguidou farmland water conservancy project, and in May 1997, an agricultural rice technology cooperation project was launched in which Chinese experts work in Guiguidou with Ivorian farmers to promote agriculture — especially rice farming.

The MATAC teams from Liaoning International have worked with the Government Cote d'Ivoire's Agency for Rice Development and National Agency for Rural Development in 2-year-long phases (as captured via Record ID#66175, #66160, #70502). Between 1997 and 2013, 7 technical assistance missions were carried out.

Each team had a mechanization expert, an agronomy expert, an interpreter, and an accountant and they lived in a ‘city’ in Guiguidou made up of dormitories, offices, experimental laboratories, and a machine repair garage.