AG REHAB II

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The Second Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development (ARDP) Project, to which the UNDP is contributing $1.3 million on grant terms, will directly benefit about 42,500 poor farm families (or nearly a quarter of a million people) by raising their farm production by 10-40. The project will improve nutrition by helping increase the production of rice, field grains and vegetables in the Vientiane Province through the provision of improved seeds to about 40,000 smallholders and the development of a state feedgrain farm. Smallholder and cooperative activities will be further supported by an improved technology package provided to about 2,400 farm families. In addition, the project will extend the improved technology package to many more farmers in the Vientiane and other provinces by training agricultural technicians and specialists who will, in turn train extension officers in the future.