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Nicaragua, Japan Sign
Health, Agriculture
Accords
The governments of Japan
and Nicaragua signed on
Friday cooperation
accords in the health
and agricultural sectors
with a total of 4.8
million U.S. dollars.
Nicaraguan Foreign
Minister Samuel Santos
and Japanese ambassador
in Nicaragua, Shinichi
Saito, signed the
accords.
The accords include aid
with assets to poor
farmers, improvement of
coffee farm roads and
the donation of 34
ambulances to the
Central American
country.
In the area of
agriculture, one of the
accords will benefit the
small and medium
producers with the sale
of fertilizers through
the Rural Development
Institute.
Another accord in the
agricultural sector aims
to improve the
conditions of 191.3 km
of coffee farm road in
the northern departments
of Matagalpa and
Jinotega, which was
affected by the
hurricane Felix and
floods, with an
investment of over 1
million dollars, said
Saito.
Saito said the
fertilizer cooperation
will be of 280 million
yens (some 2.5 million
dollars).
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