Agricultural and Livestock Services Project

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The Agricultural and Livestock Services Project is the first phase in a six-year plan, which aims to increase agricultural productivity in an environmentally sustainable manner, to improve producers' incomes, and to rationalize the use of public resources in support of rural services. The specific objectives of the project are to: 1) reshape extension into an effective service addressing farmer's needs for improved crop and livestock production as well as for natural resources management; 2) strengthen linkages between extension and research focusing on participatory and adaptive research; and 3) strengthen and build up producer's organizations. The components of the project are as follows: 1) extension service activities which will progressively cover the country's fourteen "prefectures", for crop and livestock production, and natural resource management; 2) the establishment of a minimum research capacity, through collaboration among researchers, producers and extension agents, to develop, test and promote improved production practices and technologies; and 3) the enhancement of the capacity of producers' organizations, through training and technical assistance, to carry out group activities such as crop and produce marketing, management and distribution of farm inputs, maintenance of agricultural equipment and basic animal health care.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services,FY17 - Public Administration

World Bank Group

Project

Fertilizers, Raw Materials, Government