Province to get aid from Korea

Province to get aid from Korea

BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: Governor Gusti Hasan Aman says
the province will receive technical assistance and agricultural
equipment from the South Korean government, Antara reported on
Saturday.

"By the end of April this assistance, which will come in
stages, will have been channeled to those who need it, especially
assistance in the form of technical training," he said here on
Friday.

The aid, worth US$1.1 million, will later be channeled to
wetland agricultural areas, as they have a high level of
agricultural output.

Separately, the head of the province's Food Crops Agricultural
Service, Rais Jauhari, said that in the initial stage, technical
assistance would be given in the form of training in South Korea.

"On April 28, technical personnel from Barito Kuala, Banjar
and Tanah Laut districts, numbering eight in all, will depart for
South Korea, where they will receive training for three years,"
he said.

As for the agricultural equipment to be extended as aid, he
added, this will include tractors and paddy-husking gadgets.