August 17 (SeeNews) - Serbia's government said it plans to start the construction of 14 irrigation systems across the country with financial support from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) later this year.
The systems will provide irrigation of 50,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia, with 11 of them to be located in the northern autonomous province of Vojvodina, agriculture minister Branislav Nedimovic in a press release on Wednesday.
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The project can be completed in the next two or three years with a $100 million (85.2 million euro) support from ADFD, Nedimovic said in a separate statement on Wednesday.
ADFD is an autonomous institution owned by the Abu Dhabi Government.
Serbia has already started the construction of Jankov most I and II, Itebej and Recej irrigation systems in Vojvodina, Nedimovic said during the start of works on the Medja system in the province, financed with 142,000 euro from ADFD and covering 762 hectares.
Serbian infrastructure ministry said in April it is discussing with China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) the potential construction of an irrigation tunnel connecting the Danube river to Srem region in Vojvodina, to run parallel to the future Fruskogorski Corridor road.
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