Millennium Challenges corporation repairs 17 pumping stations in Armenia worth $42 million
03.10.2011,
23:09
U.S. government-run Millennium Challenges Corporation (MCC) had financed the repair of 17 pumping stations in five Armenian provinces - Ararat, Armavir, Aragatsotn, Syunik and Tavush worth $42 million, Ara Hovsepian, the executive director of the Millenni
ARARAT, October 3. / ARKA /. U.S. government-run Millennium Challenges Corporation (MCC) had financed the repair of 17 pumping stations in five Armenian provinces - Ararat, Armavir, Aragatsotn, Syunik and Tavush worth $42 million, Ara Hovsepian, the executive director of the Millennium Challenge Account – Armenia, said today to reporters. Armenian prime minister Tigran Sarkisian and ЬСС vice president Patrick Fine, who is paying a three-day visit to Armenia, attended the opening of Ranchpar-1 pumping station in Ararat province.
According to Ara Hovsepian, some $5.5 million had been invested in the rehabilitation ща Ranchpar-1, implemented by a French company.
He said Ranchpar-1 is the most powerful of all згьзштп stations rehabilitated on MCC funds. He said it included installation of new pumps and building the main canals, repair of buildings, cleaning and deepening of collectors, as well as the construction of a dam within the reservoir to reduce groundwater levels and thus improve the drainage system in Ararat Valley.
Ranchpar-1 will take irrigation water to 4,100 hectares of land, cultivated by about 10 thousand water users from 23 communities. In general, according to Hovsepian, some $19 million have been invested by MCC in the restoration of the drainage systems in Ararat Valley, which included the cleaning of 470 km of collectors.
The five-year program "Millennium Challenge Account-Armenia" was officially ended on September 29. Patrick Fine will be visiting Armenia October 2-4 to review the results of the five year US-funded MCA-Armenia Program. He is scheduled to meet with senior government officials, farmers, donor partners, and private sector and civil society representatives. He will visit several Armenian regions as well.
In 2006, the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of the Republic of Armenia signed a Compact with the objective of reducing rural poverty through a sustainable increase in the economic performance of the agricultural sector. The program was officially completed on September 29, 2011. The MCC grant investment of nearly USD 177 million in the MCA-Armenia program have benefited over 420,000 rural residents in around 350 communities across Armenia by refurbishing major sections of the country’s main canal systems, modernizing some of the most urgently needed pumping stations, introducing new gravity irrigation schemes, re-building tertiary canals and restoring sections of the Ararat Valley Drainage system. The MCA-Armenia program has also trained over 45,000 farmers in improved agriculture practices, delivering technical assistance to water supply associations. -0-
According to Ara Hovsepian, some $5.5 million had been invested in the rehabilitation ща Ranchpar-1, implemented by a French company.
He said Ranchpar-1 is the most powerful of all згьзштп stations rehabilitated on MCC funds. He said it included installation of new pumps and building the main canals, repair of buildings, cleaning and deepening of collectors, as well as the construction of a dam within the reservoir to reduce groundwater levels and thus improve the drainage system in Ararat Valley.
Ranchpar-1 will take irrigation water to 4,100 hectares of land, cultivated by about 10 thousand water users from 23 communities. In general, according to Hovsepian, some $19 million have been invested by MCC in the restoration of the drainage systems in Ararat Valley, which included the cleaning of 470 km of collectors.
The five-year program "Millennium Challenge Account-Armenia" was officially ended on September 29. Patrick Fine will be visiting Armenia October 2-4 to review the results of the five year US-funded MCA-Armenia Program. He is scheduled to meet with senior government officials, farmers, donor partners, and private sector and civil society representatives. He will visit several Armenian regions as well.
In 2006, the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of the Republic of Armenia signed a Compact with the objective of reducing rural poverty through a sustainable increase in the economic performance of the agricultural sector. The program was officially completed on September 29, 2011. The MCC grant investment of nearly USD 177 million in the MCA-Armenia program have benefited over 420,000 rural residents in around 350 communities across Armenia by refurbishing major sections of the country’s main canal systems, modernizing some of the most urgently needed pumping stations, introducing new gravity irrigation schemes, re-building tertiary canals and restoring sections of the Ararat Valley Drainage system. The MCA-Armenia program has also trained over 45,000 farmers in improved agriculture practices, delivering technical assistance to water supply associations. -0-
