JICA holds workshop for technology transfer in Nepal

Nikken Sohonsa Corporation and Nippon Koei Co Ltd – in association with JICA – organised a workshop here today.
The workshop – held by the Japanese companies to transfer Japanese technology to the officials in the Department of Roads in Nepal and other related agencies – imparted knowledge and ideas on how to protect the slops along the highways, especially those in the mid-hill areas in Nepal using biological soil crust method and later replicate the technology in other similar roads in Nepal.
This workshop was part of ‘Collaboration Programme with the Private Sector for Disseminating Japanese Technology for Environment-friendly Slope Restoration with Soil Algae’ project implemented by JICA. The project also carried out slope restoration with soil algae along the Sinduli-Bardibas Road and other mid-hill highways by promoting vegetative succession by spraying biological soil crust produced from the cosmopolitan soil, according to a press note from the Japanese Embassy in Kathmandu.
Upon the implementation of this new technology, it is believed that the traffic flow along the Sinduli-Bardibas Road would be secured. The technology is expected to support for better protection of the mountain roads by mitigating slop failures, the release reads, adding that the technology transfer is one of the ‘corner stones’ of JICA’s cooperation with Nepal.