2002 : IID wins a major management contract in Mongolia

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IID wins a major management contract in Mongolia to assist the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to modernise its service to agriculture in the 4 western Aimags of Hovd, Zhavkhan & Uvs. IID is the lead contractor in the management of the $US14 million ADB financed Mongolian Agricultural Sector Development Project.

IID, with its Director, Kevin Rutter as Team Leader, is in association with Monconsult, GTZ and Agriteam Canada. The project is to facilitate the evolution of the Agricultural sector towards a more efficient, productive market oriented industry. The project includes a significant credit component to finance change and technical inputs for extensive livestock, water supplies, small farming, meat and fibre product classification and marketing.

IID, in association with Agriteam Canada and MonConsult won a major ADB funded PPTA, the Mongolian Crop Sector Project Preparation. Agriteam took the lead in this study for a $US35 million project. Mr Leake undertook the small crop and livestock component of the study, while Jim Purcell provided Irrigation Specialist expertise.

Azerbaijan Rural Credit Project. World Bank. IID as an associate of G&G Consultants of Turkey (the lead contractors) and a Turkish Bank have been awarded a contract to manage this $US50 million rural credit in Azerbaijan over a 5 year period. The management review board has the responsibility of approving operational plans and participating in project evaluation meetings. John Leake and Laurie Zivetz are providing inputs in Azerbaijan.

The NSW Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Salinity called John Leake as an expert witness to testify on policy matters for NSW Government support to activities to ameliorate the effects of salinity and on the place of the NyPa Distichlis plants in the landscape.

The IID Development Fund won a contract to manage the NyPa ‘Wild Wheat’ proof of concept applied research project funded by AusIndustry, the SA Bio-Innovation Fund and NyPa Australia Pty Limited. The project, to cost $A1 million over 2 years, involves selecting the most productive NyPa ‘Wild Wheat’ plants for replication by tissue culture to establish the plants in test plots in SA, WA and Victoria, to harvest the grain, mill it and prepare different cooking trials and undertake market research to ‘prove the concept’ of NyPa Wild Wheat as a commercial crop for wheat lands degraded by salinity.

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