AGRICULTURE

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The project is designed to increase grain production, and decrease harvest losses through increased storage capacity and modernized and more efficient storage management and improve productivity through increased investment in on-farm mechanization. Investments would be in grain storage and mechanization for grain production in the remaining 3-year period of the current Five-Year National Development Plan. Investment in on-farm storage and mechanization would be all in the social sector, including State and cooperative farms. Investment in off-farm storage would be carried out by the Grain Trust, the State agency for grain marketing. Minor expenditures for technical assistance in grain handling, mechanization study tours, development of a management information system for major sub-borrowers, an agricultural price policy study and future project preparation would also be financed under the project.