Ms. Eija Pehu, the director of Agriculture and Rural Development Department, the World Bank,visited Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM) on April 11th.

She inspected the implementation details of “Construction and Demonstration of the Agricultural information service system”project, which was supported by the Innovation Technology Funding from World Bank. Ms. Eija Pehu was accompanied by leaderships from the Agricultural Development Board of Anhui Provincial Finance Department.

Ms. Eija Pehu listened carefully to the project implementation report, and watched the demonstration of rural information service system with great interest. The service model of agriculture information delivery aroused Ms. Eija Pehu’s special interest and she was impressed with the role it played in promoting the development and growth of agricultural cooperative organizations. Ms. Eija Pehu also spoke highly of the agricultural information service model as well as technology innovation in agricultural and rural development. 

Ms. Eija Pehu had lively discussion with scientists involving in the project, and she praised that this is a young, dynamic research team.