AGRICULTURAL ESTATES

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The Agricultural Estates Project involves (i) the planting or replanting and bringing to maturity of substantial areas of rubber and oil palm; (ii) the bringing to maturity of similar areas of immature rubber and oil palm planted prior to 1969; (iii) the rehabilitation by a fertilizer program of large existing areas of mature rubber and mature oil palm. Provision has also been included for the corresponding rehabilitation and development of palm oil processing mills and rubber processing factories; for estate transportation vehicles, for machinery for land clearing and estate road maintenance, and for the construction and equipment of workshops. Technical assistance will be provided for management of a Joint Marketing Office, plant breeding programs and a development survey of government-owned estates covering other PNPs in Atjeh and North Sumatra, and rubber producing estates elsewhere; also for a feasibility study for rehabilitating and developing the smallholder rubber sector in Atjeh and North Sumatra.