The Korea International Cooperation Agency is giving a $9.5 million grant to boost agribusiness in the Quirino province in the Philippines, the Manila Times reported.

The most recent grant will cover the second phase of the Integrated Rural Development Project and covers a period from November 2018 to December 2022.

The first phase of the project was funded by a $5 million grant from the South Korean government and included construction of the Quirino Livelihood for Everyone’s 4-tonne feed mill.

The provincial government here has expressed intention to expand the Quirino Integrated Agricultural Development Program to serve the remaining 25 percent farmers who are living below the poverty line.

The QIADP has been carried out here from 2013-2016 by the Korea Institute for Rural Development (KIRD) through a grant of US$5 million from the Korean government’s Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the province’s counterpart of P3 million.