Tahal, the Israeli water-planning company, is undertaking major international development research projects, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned. One project in Panama, will involve a study of agricultural development, to be financed by international sources. The study itself would be financed by the Panamanian government. A larger project is a study of a master plan for agricultural and industrial development along the Amazon River in Brazil–a project desired by the government there. Tahal. which has won international praise for such surveys, is currently working in some 20 countries in the Near East, the Far East and Latin America. Its current projects involve some $6 million.
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