Ankara, Turkey, 16 September 2019 - Under “IsDB’s Reverse Linkage,” eight agriculture experts from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are attending 2 weeks of training during September 16-27, 2019, in Ankara. The training program will be organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Republic of Turkey in cooperation the Turkish International Agency for Cooperation (TIKA) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group.

In his welcome remarks, at the opening ceremony, Br. Saleh Jelassi, Regional Manager, IsDB Group Regional Hub Turkey, highlighted IsDB’s firm determination to encourage the South-South Cooperation among its member countries through providing both financial and technical support to technical assistance and capacity building programs that facilitate information, technology and know-how transfers amongst member countries. He also extended the sincere appreciation of the IsDB Group for the great efforts by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and TIKA to enhance the technical capacity of select Central Asian IsDB Member Countries and wished the participating experts a very successful training.

Academicians from the faculties of Agriculture of Ankara and Ege Universities, experts from Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as Experts in the agricultural machinery manufacturing industry will give lecturers during the two-week training program. Moreover, the participants would also pay field visits to other locations in Turkey under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey and IsDB Group Regional Hub Turkey with the purpose of exchanging technical know-how with the agricultural machinery companies in Konya.

Through dissemination of both technical and practical knowledge, this training program co-financed by the IsDB Group would ultimately aim to enhance the capacity of the participants in the domain of agricultural mechanization, maintenance and adjustment of agricultural machinery and equipment which would in turn contribute to enhancing the agricultural production capacity of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.