Agriculture

Eswatini

Grants & Concessional Finance

  • An Agriculture Development and Mechanization Project under US$37.9 million LOC was completed earlier, which resulted in improving the maize productivity of Eswatini by six times.
  • During State visit of President of India in April 2018, India gave a cash grant of US$ 1 million to the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA); in-kind donation of 700 tons of rice and 300 tons of beans for the NDMA and medicines and medical equipment worth US$ 3 million, and announced a grant assistance of US$ 400,000 for construction of irrigation infrastructure in Lubuyane in the Hhohho region (underway after the release of first instalment of US$ 200,000 in October 2019 and second and final instalment of US$ 200,000 released on 07 August 2020).