AG.DEVT.AYANGBA

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The Ayangba Agricultural Development Project will be carried out over a five-year investment period, 1978-1982, but 1977 would be the start-up period and expenses incurred during that year have been included in project costs. The project would involve physical infrastructure, support services and farm inputs, including: 1,300 km of feeder roads; construction of 180 wells and an administrative center at Ayangba; establishment of a seed multiplication farm; expansion of a training center to provide for an expanded applied research capacity and a training program for project staff and farmers; establishment of an evaluation unit; and construction of 30 Farmers' Service Centers to provide adequate input supply and credit facilities, and a market advisory service to farmers; the provision of veterinary services and improvement of local small livestock; establishment of about 1,000 ha of township fuelwood and pole plantations; establishment of 15 fishing lagoons and an improvement and expansion of the fishery extension and an expansion of the Agricultural Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Planning Unit financed under Loan 1092-UNI; and the purchase of an aircraft.