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COMCEC Agriculture Outlook 2019
The 1st Project Call under the COMCEC Project Fundingwas made in September 2013. Within
the framework of the first project call of the COMCEC Project Funding, in agriculture sector, the
project titled “Pakistan Bioremediation Model forWastewater Treatment and Capacity Building
Program among OIC Countries” proposed by Pakistan was successfully implemented with the
participation of Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh and Turkey in 2014.
Moreover, the 2nd Project Call was made in September 2014 and within this framework, four
projects were implemented successfully. These projects were submitted fromChad, Indonesia,
Surinam and Turkey. Project titles and brief information about the projects implemented in
2015 are as follows:
 Chad implemented a project on “Support to the Agricultural Training Centers” with the
participation of Burkina Fasoand Turkey.
 The project titled “Improving the income of small and medium scale farmers in the OIC
Member States through Integrated Farming System”was implemented by Indonesia with
three partner countries namely, Sudan, Gambia and Egypt.
 Suriname conducted the project titled “Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for Greenhouse
Vegetable Crops; Principles for Tropical Climate Areas” with Turkey and Guyana.
 Turkey implemented a project titled “The Establishment of Database, Network Connection
and Web Pages of Smallholders/family Farmer’s Agricultural Cooperatives between
COMCEC Member States”with the participation of 19 Member Countries.
Furthermore, under the 3rd Project Call made in September 2015, the following 3 projects
proposed by Iran, Palestine and Turkey were implemented in 2016.
 Islamic Republic of Iran implemented the project titled “Rural Household Empowerment
on Management of Production, Supply and Market Access” with the participation of
Azerbaijan and Turkey.
 The project titled “Improving Small Ruminates Productivity by using different
technologies as silage, feed block and hydroponic in Palestine, Jordan and Tunisia” was
implemented by Palestine.
 Turkey conducted the project titled “Establishment of Database, Network Connection and
Web Pages of Smallholders/ Family Farmer’s Agricultural Cooperatives between COMCEC
Member States” with the participation of 13 OIC member countries.
Moreover, under the 4th Call made in September 2016, in agriculture sector, the following 2
projects proposed byGambia and Indonesia were implemented in 2017.
 The Gambia implemented the project titled“Reduction of Post-Harvest Losses in Cereals for
Improving Rural Livelihood” with Indonesia and Nigeria.
 The project titled “Improving Income of Small and Medium Scale Farmers in the OIC
Member Countries through Reducing Losses of LivestockProduction”was implemented by
Indonesiawith the participation of Egypt, Malaysia and Sudan.